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Published: 12:24 14 Mar 2016 GMT

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It's an own goal for Goals Soccer Centres PLC (LON:GOAL), which has posted its first full-year loss in 12 years.

Like-for-like (LFL) sales were down 6.3% from a year earlier, with UK LFLs off 6.3%, but the company's push into the US looks like it is going well, with LFL sales in the land of “sock-ah” up 8.4%.

With the company binning its dividend after reporting a loss before tax of £6.2mln, admittedly after taking a non-cash write down of £14.5mln on a mixture of things – goodwill, assets and software development – Keith Edelman has been subbed off, and Nick Basing has been appointed as the new executive chairman.

In the meantime, the search for a new chief executive and two new non-executive directors is well advanced, with high quality candidates being considered, the company said.

There has been a lot of trading activity surrounding resource companies this morning, with ECR Minerals PLC, MX Oil PLC, LGO Energy PLC and Nostra Terra PLC all seeing more of their shares changing hands than – choosing a company almost at random – BP PLC (LON:BP.).

More than 56mln ECR (LON:ECR) shares were shifted this morning, with the Philippines-focused gold miner revealing it was notified on Friday that Andrew Neal no longer has a notifiable interest in the company.

At one point the high net worth investor had a stake of more than 7%.

More than 54mln MXO Oil (LON:MXO) shares were traded in the morning session, as the Aim-quoted oil and gas investing company disclosed it had raised £2.5mln by placing 333.3mln shares at 0.75p each. The shares ebbed 0.325p to 0.8p.

Just over 50mln LGO (LON:LGO) shares have been traded as the Trinidad-focused company issued an upbeat statement regarding its Goudron onshore field.

It has started work again at its Goudron field onshore in Trinidad after the recent up-tick in the crude price.

Nostra Terra Oil and Gas Company PLC (LON:NTOG) has been left in the lurch by Sanlam Securities, its nominated adviser (nomad), which is exiting the nomad business and jacking in small cap broking activities.

As a result, the company's shares will be suspended from trading on Aim with effect from 15 March 2016 if it does not appoint a new nominated adviser, and its listing on Aim will be cancelled all together if it does not appoint a new nomad by 15 April.

With the clock ticking down to a time when it won't be possible to trade Nostra Terra shares, just over 47mln were traded this morning.

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