The FTSE Small Cap index closes down 1.2 percent, outperforming the blue chips, down 1.6 percent, and the midcaps, down 1.4 percent.
Pentagon Protection, a provider of security and energy saving solutions, leaps 68.63 percent on a 1.9 million pound ($2.91 million) contract win for the supply of portable X-ray equipment by the group's security division SDS Group.
RM (LSE: RM.L - news) says it has swung to a full-year pretax profit, with shares in the educational services provider jumping 9.9 percent.
Reuters messaging rm://tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net ($1 = 0.6535 British pounds)
