FTSE touches 14-month high, though miners fall

By Kit Rees and Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index steadied on Friday after reaching a 14-month high, though mining stocks fell following a weak set of data from China The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed flat in percentage terms at 6,916.02 points, touching its highest level since June 2015 earlier in the session. The FTSE 100 is up around 11 percent so far in 2016. Record low interest rates set by the Bank of England have helped the UK stock market recover from a slump