The London stock market recovered by midday on Friday, with the FTSE 100 index down 14.06 points, or 0.27 percent, at 5,246.93 points in midday trading. Worries over the Greek debt crisis and the hung Parliament in Britain had hit shares, but a rebound in mining shares helped to drag the index back. HSBC shares rose 3.6 percent after the bank said its first quarter profits were 'comfortably ahead' of last year. British Airways fell 2.4 percent after staff rejected an offer to settle a long- running dispute on pay and conditions. Support services group Capita dropped 5.1 percent after a broker downgrade from Shore Capital. Outside the FTSE 100 index, broadcaster ITV fell 6.2 percent after it warned that the rest of 2010 could be tough, even though its advertising revenues for the first three months of the year had risen 6 percent. 