MedPal AI plc (MPAL) , the AI-native digital health and pharmacy group, provided a trading and financing update following the movement in its share price and the volume of shares traded on 6 October 2026.
• Record trading: on Monday 5 October 2026, New Health dispensed over 2,300 prescription orders in a single day, with a total order value of approximately £0.3 million.
• Working capital facility: the Company has received an indicative term sheet from a non-bank lender for £8 million of funding, with other financing options under review.
• No equity fundraising planned: the Company confirms that no equity fundraising has been agreed and none is planned.
• Strong liquidity position: as at 6 October 2026, the Group held cash, near cash and stock of approximately £6.4 million.
Comment: We have the blow the lights out numbers, massive market share grab, and the confirmation of no equity fundraise. Given that the company’s GLP-1’s are selling like hot cakes and there is over £6m in the kitty, one can suggest that anyone with an even mildly negative stance on the company continues to bark up the wrong tree. 10p was the technical call by the end of this month. After today’s update it is back on the agenda.
CleanTech Lithium PLC (CTL) an exploration and development company advancing sustainable lithium projects, announced it has secured promising mining properties located in the southern part of the Salar de Antofalla, a major salar in Argentina which is only 80km from CTL’s flagship project, Laguna Verde. While the focus remains on progressing the advanced Laguna Verde Project, the addition of this project enhances CTL’s district scale exploration and development strategy. CTL said “We are excited by the addition of this project in Argentina. Salar de Antofalla is the largest undeveloped Salar in Argentina, and is strategically located very close to our flagship Laguna Verde Project, as well as to Viento Andino. We expect these three projects to have significant development synergies, as well as potentially benefitting from sharing a centralized conversion facility in Copiapó. The Laguna Verde Project remains our main focus, however the addition of the Antofalla Project provides strong long term value enhancement for our shareholders.”
Comment: We have a pleasant surprise from CTL, something which when added to the rest of the progress regarding Playa Verde and the Australian listing by the end of the year, makes everything here appear hunky dory. The only thing missing is for the recent recovery in the shares to get nearer to 10p.
Blencowe Resources Plc (BRES) said it was pleased to make available a new investor interview with Interim Chief Executive Officer Iain Wearing. The interview introduces Iain, his extensive mining and project-development experience background and his role in advancing the Orom-Cross Graphite Project: The interview also includes a 3D visualisation of the planned Orom-Cross mining and processing operation. The full interview can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/1233775873/f0690def0e?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Comment: I was not aware that my mate Sacha did CEO interviews. But here he is in fine inquisitor mode, even though unlike me he presumably has not worked for Shares Magazine, written for the Investors Chronicle, Yahoo! Finance, or The Spectator, and appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC. Oh yes, and I am National Union of Journalists. As far as BRES is concerned, the shares have halved since their February peak of 12p and therefore there is a lot of work for the new CEO (and Sacha) to do to revive sentiment towards the company, especially after its recent governance and compliance issues.
Tap Global Group plc (TAP) , the regulated digital finance platform, provided an update on Tap Earn, the Group's proprietary crypto asset yield programme launched in May 2026. AUM surpasses US$9 million, more than doubled since May. Cumulative gross yield of approximately US$157,000 since launch. TAP said “Five months in, and Tap Earn holds more than US$9 million of customer assets, more than double where it stood in May. The product does one simple thing well. Our customers already hold Bitcoin and digital assets; Tap Earn pays them on those holdings every week, and it has now done so 22 weeks in a row. The programme has generated around US$157,000 of gross yield since launch, around US$32,500 of which was in September alone. Our focus is to keep growing the book and the yield it generates.”
Comment: As a long standing shareholder of TAP, one is of course delighted to read the regular RNS updates, showing that the company is working hard. However, the numbers here are simply too small on TAP Earn, even if it is going to be transformational to the company down the line. The shares being down 50% so far this year says it all: TAP still needs to sort itself and its communications out.
RentGuarantor (RGG) , a leading provider of rent guarantee services, which includes property protection, to tenants and landlords in the UK1 private rental sector, is announced a two-year partnership agreement with King’s College London, a world-renowned university that is ranked fourth in the UK by total enrolment. Under the terms of the Agreement, RentGuarantor will serve as a professional guarantor partner for KCL, providing the University’s student body, including approximately 20,000 overseas students, with the ability to secure a guarantor through the Company’s professional guarantor solution. The partnership will help support students seeking accommodation in central London, close to the University campuses, where average student rental costs range from approximately £2,000 to £2,500 per month, according to Rightmove.
Comment: Along with Medpal one could argue that RGG is one of the London small cap stocks of the year, and it would appear that there is much more to come. All that is needed is for the drip-drip of progressively better counterparties to continue, for instance and national estate agent. That said, KCL is not shabby. 140p by the end of October has been the technical call here.
Forgent plc (FORG), the Australian-focused critical and precious minerals explorer, is pleased to provide an operational update on the ongoing Phase II drilling programme at its 99%-owned Peak Hill Gold-Copper Project in Western Australia. Based on the latest laboratory schedule, the Company expects to receive assay results for 56 Phase II holes by 25 October 2026. The results will cover all 30 Phase II holes drilled at Curley’s to date, analysed for both gold and copper, and the initial 26 holes from Cathedral, a large and previously undrilled target.
Comment: There was a handy rally in FORG shares in the second half of last month, and it could perhaps be the case that the shares get a second wind in the run up to assay results at the end of this month. That said, there is still perhaps a way to go for the shares to finally emerge from a multi-year bear market.
Blackbird plc (BIRD) , the developer and seller of the market-leading cloud native video editing and publishing platform, Blackbird, and the browser-based collaborative video editor, elevate.io, announce that elevate.io will be featured in Google's Chromebook perks programme. Chromebook perks offer Chromebook owners exclusive benefits from selected software partners. Under the programme, Chromebook users will be able to access elevate.io with a 50% discount for six months on monthly pay-as-you-go plans, or a 25% discount on an annual subscription.
Comment: Being something of an expert in the area of native video editing – I have been doing this for some years, I have been sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see elevate.io hit the big time. Therefore, today’s news of a deal with Google, should be just what the product and the stock market would like to see.