FTSE closes positive, follows Wall Street gains

By Kit Rees and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's leading share index ended higher on Wednesday, buoyed by results from industrial equipment hire group Ashtead and by opening gains on Wall Street [.N]. The FTSE 100 closed up at 24.77 points, or 0.4 percent, at 6,083.31, broadly in line with European indexes and Wall Street. Stocks were more upbeat as investors bet that the U.S. Federal Reserve might delay a much-anticipated rate hike and took comfort from the latest Chinese moves to ca