FTSE regains some of yesterday's losses

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The benchmark FTSE 100 ended up 13.60 points today at 4,416.60 after UK stocks rose for the first day in three, led by gains made by Yell Group and Enterprise Inns.

Yell rose 13.75p to 317.25p. The company, which is the publisher of telephone directories across Britain and the US, reported that fiscal 2004 sales increased 6.5% from a year earlier to £1.19bn. Enterprise Inns added 20p to 580p after the pub landlord said its fiscal first-half net income climbed 6.4% from the year-earlier period to £61.9m boosted by acquisitions. British Airways gained 3.5p to 246.75p. Celltech Group rose 112p, or 26%, to 542.5p after the biotechnology company announced it had agreed to be bought by UCB SA, Belgium's second-largest drugmaker. UCB SA will be acqui...

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