Manroy's chairman Andrew Blurton has been upping his stake in the machine gun maker.

The firm announced today that he bought 25,000 shares at 110p a time. Earlier in the week he took 10,000 shares at 104p a time. He now has 295,000 shares, which is more than 2.3% of the company.

Manroy supplies the UK Army. In January it announced that it had signed a spare parts contract with an unnamed Middle East government.

Weapons the company supplies include the .50" M2HB Machine Gun and the ME 7.62mm GPMG.

Top Director Buys

Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC)
Director name: Sir Richard D Lapthorne
Amount purchased: 1,501,131 @ 36.57p
Value: £548,964

Absolute Return Trust Ltd. GBP Shares (ABR)
Director name: Mr Nicholas Fry
Amount purchased: 29,301 @ 117.90p
Value: £34,546

Manroy (MAN)
Director name: Mr Andrew F Blurton
Amount purchased: 25,000 @ 110.00p
Value: £27,500

Breedon Aggregates Ltd. (BREE)
Director name: Mr Peter W G Tom
Amount purchased: 100,000 @ 18.50p
Value: £18,500

Related share prices
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) share price
Absolute Return Trust Ltd. GBP Shares (ABR) share price
Breedon Aggregates Ltd. (BREE) share price
Manroy (MAN) share price