UK small-cap RNS · 17 Apr 2026

Key = all announcements except routine filings (voting rights, buybacks, holdings, director forms), plus the ones that are part of a situation. Not investment advice.

1. 16:00
   Filtronic FTC £539m

   Holding(s) in Company Holding
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2. 16:00
   Coro Energy CORO £3.1m

   Holding(s) in Company Holding
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3. 13:40
   Light Science Technologies Holdings LST £8.6m

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4. 09:34
   Trafalgar Property Group TRAF £7.0m

   Proposed £1.93m Subscription and GM Notice Fundraise

   Sells all subsidiaries, i.e. the residential development business, to director Chris Johnson for £1.00, a fundamental change of business under AIM Rule 15. This leaves a shell seeking a reverse takeover.

   Cash shell / net cash above market value £1.9m · 28% of mcapfirst since Oct 2023 +12.0% on the day

   Moved: Talbot Park Tunbridge Wells build: Construction under way by a local developer → To be sold with subsidiaries · Funding and going concern pressure: Going concern basis kept; cash low, funded by Wager → £1.93m subscription proposed, conditional · Hilton House Stockport conversion: 10% stake held; planning decision awaited → Reversal of 10% stake purchase proposed
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5. 07:01
   Quantum Helium Limited QHE £7.7m

   £5 Million Institutional Placing Fundraise

   Raises £5m, funding development at Sagebrush and Coyote Wash on top of $3.4m cash (31 Dec 2025), but issues 16.67bn shares at 0.03p, expanding the share count to about 50bn. No discount is stated.

   Project milestones £5.0m · 65% of mcapoutlook positive −24.4% on the day

   Moved: Sagebrush-1 extended flow test: Extended production test commenced 8 April 2026 → Test under way; perforations due week of 20 April · Coyote Wash development: IMDA approved; planning and permitting → IMDA approved; placing funds permitting and planning · new: £5m institutional placing – Placing announced; admission pending
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6. 07:00
   Palace Capital PCA £30m

   Share Buyback Programme

   Starts a broker-run buyback of up to 400,000 shares as the first step of a wider capital return, after the 16% valuation fall cut cash available for a tender.

   Disposal of a part (break-up) outlook positivefirst in 10 months −0.9% on the day

   Moved: Portfolio disposal and capital return: Exeter under offer; York apartments selling → Buyback started; wider capital return planned
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7. 07:00
   Optima Health OPT £265m

   Full Year Trading Update Trading update

   On 31 March the company said FY26 adjusted EBITDA would be at least in line with consensus; it now says c.10% ahead. Other operating income of £2.4m in H2 is part of the result.

   Large acquisition / reverse takeover ahead of expectationsoutlook positive, raisedfirst since Oct 2023 +5.0% on the day

   Moved: PAM Healthcare acquisition: Completed 26 March; open offer launched to repay bridge → Completed 26 March; open offer pending
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8. 07:00
   Workspace Group WKP £637m

   Workspace Q4 Business Update

   FY25/26 profit is in line, but the company now guides to a substantial step down in FY26/27 Trading Profit and expects a negative effect on property valuation.

   Turnaround plan with targets outlook negative −6.2% on the day

   Moved: Low-conviction building disposals: £106m of £200m exchanged or completed → £125.7m of £200m exchanged or completed · Fix, Accelerate and Scale turnaround: Occupancy improving; new CEO due → New CEO repositioning; profit step down guided
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9. 07:00
   VP VP. £207m

   Trading Update Trading update

   Confirms the FY26 profit range of £26-29m set in February's cut, so there is no further downgrade, but also no recovery. The reassurance is that guidance holds after the earlier warning.

   Turnaround plan with targets in lineoutlook mixedfirst in 6 months +1.7% on the day

   Moved: Brandon Hire Station repositioning: Good progress; branches cut to 41, c.400 headcount reduction → Materially completed, in line with expectations (closed)
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