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Earnings per share (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions | 12 Months Ended |  |  |
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Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($) $ / shares shares | Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($) $ / shares shares | Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) $ / shares shares | Dec. 31, 2017 £ / shares | Dec. 31, 2016 £ / shares | Dec. 31, 2015 £ / shares
Earnings per share [abstract] |  |  |  |  |  |
Par value per share (in GBP per share) | £ / shares |  |  |  | £ 0.50 | £ 0.5 | £ 0.5
Basic earnings: |  |  |  |  |  |
Net income | $ 11.5 | $ 21.9 | $ 16.1 |  |  |
Accounting charges relating to acquisitions and disposals of businesses |  |  |  |  |  |
Unwind of discount on deferred contingent consideration from acquisitions | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 |  |  |
Acquisitions and disposals (Note 5) | (1.3) | (0.2) | 2.0 |  |  |
Amortization on acquired intangibles | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.4 |  |  |
IAS 19R retirement benefits finance charge | 1.8 | 2.1 | 3.0 |  |  |
Profit on sale of redundant site (Note 5) | (0.4) | (2.1) | 0.0 |  |  |
Changes to defined benefit pension plans (Note 5) | 0.0 | (0.6) | (18.0) |  |  |
Restructuring and other expense (Note 5) | 21.6 | 2.2 | 22.4 |  |  |
Other share based compensation charges | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1.3 |  |  |
Impact from U.S. tax reform | (6.0) | 0.0 | 0.0 |  |  |
Income tax thereon | (3.2) | (1.4) | 0.9 |  |  |
Adjusted net income | $ 27.6 | $ 24.7 | $ 29.5 |  |  |
Weighted average number of £0.50 ordinary shares: |  |  |  |  |  |
For basic earnings per share (in shares) | shares | 26,460,947 | 26,443,662 | 26,918,987 |  |  |
Exercise of share options (in shares) | shares | 541,223 | 270,997 | 453,736 |  |  |
For diluted earnings per share (in shares) | shares | 27,002,170 | 26,714,659 | 27,372,723 |  |  |
Basic |  |  |  |  |  |
Adjusted (in USD per share) | $ / shares | $ 1.04 | $ 0.93 | $ 1.10 |  |  |
Unadjusted (in USD per share) | $ / shares | 0.43 | 0.83 | 0.60 |  |  |
Diluted |  |  |  |  |  |
Adjusted (in USD per share) | $ / shares | 1.02 | 0.92 | 1.08 |  |  |
Unadjusted (in USD per share) | $ / shares | $ 0.43 | $ 0.82 | $ 0.59 |  |  |

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