Nuclear work helps Babcock top City targets 07:50 , Graeme Evans Babcock International highlighted further progress today by forecasting revenues and underlying operating profit ahead of City expectations.

European shares hit a record high on Thursday, buoyed by a raft of upbeat earnings, while Britain's FTSE 100 also scaled an all-time peak ahead of a likely rate cut by the Bank of England (BoE). The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.