"Fresh hopes that struggling High Street bank Alliance & Leicester might be put out of its misery injected momentum into the ailing stock just hours before the market was due to close. Alliance & Leicester shot up 30½p to 510p, a rise of more than 5%, as investors detected a takeover message hidden in Lloyds TSB chairman Sir Victor Blank's words."
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