For the year ended 31 July 2007
| Note | 2007 £'000 |
2006 £'000 |
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| Net cash inflow from operating activities | 27 | 7,204 | 4,948 | ||||||||||
| Returns on investments and servicing of finance | |||||||||||||
| Interest received | 113 | 47 | |||||||||||
| Interest paid | (426 | ) | (303 | ) | |||||||||
| Minority interest dividend paid | - | (69 | ) | ||||||||||
| Net cash outflow from returns on investments and servicing of finance | (313 | ) | (325 | ) | |||||||||
| Taxation | (1,992 | ) | (2,430 | ) | |||||||||
| Capital expenditure and financial investment | |||||||||||||
| (Payments for)/receipts from long-term deposits | (78 | ) | 60 | ||||||||||
| Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets | (1,170 | ) | (1,280 | ) | |||||||||
| Proceeds from sale of tangible fixed assets | 3 | 17 | |||||||||||
| Net cash outflow from capital expenditure and financial investment | (1,245 | ) | (1,203 | ) | |||||||||
| Acquisitions and disposals | |||||||||||||
| Acquisition expenses | 23 | (10 | ) | (720 | ) | ||||||||
| Purchase of associate undertaking | - | (11 | ) | ||||||||||
| Purchase of additional stake in subsidiary undertakings | 23 | (1,948 | ) | (2,749 | ) | ||||||||
| Cash at bank and in hand acquired with subsidiaries | - | 1,388 | |||||||||||
| Payments to acquire trade and assets | - | (262 | ) | ||||||||||
| Net cash outflow from acquisitions and disposals | (1,958 | ) | (2,354 | ) | |||||||||
| Equity dividends paid | 10 | (691 | ) | (590 | ) | ||||||||
| Net cash inflow/(outflow) before financing | 1,005 | (1,954 | ) | ||||||||||
| Financing | |||||||||||||
| Issue of new share capital | - | 49 | |||||||||||
| Proceeds from sale of own shares | 21 | 952 | 183 | ||||||||||
| Bank loans repayable after more than one year | 539 | 3,716 | |||||||||||
| Capital element of finance lease rental repayments | (299 | ) | (20 | ) | |||||||||
| Redemption of minorities | - | (1,009 | ) | ||||||||||
| Cash inflow from financing | 1,192 | 2,919 | |||||||||||
| Increase in cash in the year | 27 | 2,197 | 965 | ||||||||||