<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Alert Data News | Business | Companies | UK | East Midlands</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk</link><description>Latest Business News in East Midlands powered by Alert Data</description><language>en-gb</language><copyright>&amp;copy; Alert Research Ltd 2005-2010</copyright><webMaster>rss@alertdata.co.uk</webMaster><ttl>30</ttl><docs>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/rss.php</docs><generator>PHP/5.2.13</generator><image><title>Alert Data</title><url>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/images/alertdata.gif</url><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk</link><width>216</width><height>51</height><description>Latest Business News in East Midlands powered by Alert Data</description></image><item><title>Travis Perkins Plc</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/4863.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Travis Perkins recovers but wary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;LONDON (SHARECAST)  - Travis Perkins beat expectations as underlying first half profits jumped by a quarter, but the Wickes owner says trading patterns still remain hard to predict.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:21:51 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alertdata.co.uk/4863.htm</guid></item><item><title>BSS Group Public Limited Company(The)</title><link>http://www.alertdata.co.uk/4766.htm</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;BSS Group Public Limited Company(The) - Result of AGM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;BTSM - All resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company held on 29 July 2010 at the Marriott Hotel, Smith Way, Grove Park, Leicester LE19 1SW were passed by shareholders on a show of hand. 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