Ultimate Leisure, the Newcastle pub group, is a rising star in which investors should consider buying for recovery before the interim results are announced next month, advises The Sunday Times.

The Newcastle pub group has opened eight outlets since it floated last summer at 145p. It has slipped back to 187p from a high of 230p earlier this year but the anticipated excellent preliminary results appear to offer plenty of future promise, says the newspaper's Sharewatch column.

The Sunday Times 20/08/00 page 9 (Business - Sharewatch)