UK retail sales rise in July but annual growth slows after revisions

British retail sales rose more than expected in July, boosted by good weather and the women’s European soccer championship, but annual growth was slower than expected after extensive revisions to previous months’ data.

Sales volumes in July were up 0.6 per cent from June, the Office for National Statistics said this week, above economists’ forecasts of a 0.2 per cent rise in a Reuters poll. But the annual growth rate