STOCK WATCH

■ WARPAINT London shares surged on the back of a positive trading update.

Ahead of half-year results later this month, the AIMlisted skincare and make-up firm expects to beat market expectations for the year following ‘strong trading’.

Warpaint, which sells products to the likes of Boots, Asda and Matalan, expects sales across the 12 months to be at least £61m and profit of more than £9m.

Shares shot up 17.7pc, or 19.5p, to 130p.