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Notes to the accounts

5 Net finance costs

 

Year ended
31 July 2008
£m

Period ended
31 July 2007
£m

Interest receivable

2.2

21.4

Interest payable

   

– bank loans and overdrafts

(19.6)

(28.5)

– other loans

(23.6)

(29.3)

Interest payable

(43.2)

(57.8)

Other financing (losses)/gains

   

– fair value losses on hedged debt

(4.0)

(1.0)

– fair value gains on fair value hedge

4.0

1.0

– net foreign exchange (losses)/gains

(1.4)

2.1

– exceptional finance costs – adjustment to discounted provision

(4.7)

 

Other financing (losses)/gains

(6.1)

2.1

Retirement benefits

   

– return on plan assets

217.3

191.2

– interest cost

(175.6)

(157.5)

Retirement benefits

41.7

33.7

Net finance costs

(5.4)

(0.6)


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