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sales at its chain of 183 Waitrose supermarkets increased 7.6 pct to 73.63 mln stg.



Total partnership sales increased 5.4 pct to 121.96 mln stg.





Resolution says talks over possible sale terminated

LONDON (AFX) - Closed life fund consolidator Resolution PLC said talks with various parties over a possible sale of the group have been called off, leaving it free to resume looking for possible acquisitions and mergers.

Resolution, which specialises in buying and profitably managing life insurance funds that no longer accept new customers, announced in November that it had entered talks with unnamed parties over a range of possible deals including a sale of the business.



Shanks Group sees FY trading in line with expectations

LONDON (AFX) - Waste management company Shanks Group PLC said it expects overall trading for the year to March 31 2007 to be in line with its expectations.



Updating the market ahead of full year results release on May 31 2007, the company said its mainland European operations have performed well in the period and its potential within the UK municipal waste market remains high.



Vodafone unveils mobile deal with Asda

LONDON (AFX) - Mobile phone giant Vodafone Group PLC has struck a deal with Asda, which will see the supermarket chain sell branded mobile phone services to shoppers.

The deal will be similar to the agreement between Tesco and Telefonica's O2, under which the UK's biggest grocer rents airtime on the O2 network.

Over 1 mln Tesco customers have signed up to the service since its launch in 2003.



UK's robust economic growth to moderate in 2008 - NIESR

LONDON (AFX) - The UK's economic growth will remain robust this year but begin to ease going into next year, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research said today.

As part of a bi-annual report for the European Commission on the UK and euro area economies, the NIESR said it expects UK GDP to grow by 2.

75 pct this year and 2.50 pct in 2008. Inflation should moderate from 2.

8 pct currently to hover just above the Bank of England's 2.0 pct target over the next couple of years.



ITV, Setanta win FA Cup and England rights from Sky, BBC - reports

LONDON (AFX) - Britain's biggest commercial broadcaster ITV and its partner Setanta Sports have won the rights to broadcast the English FA Cup and England's home international matches, according to several British media reports.



The BBC and satellite broadcaster BSkyB had previously shared the rights to the two sports offerings, and their four-year deal with the Football Association is set to expire next summer.





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