Record Christmas sales for UK retail giant

UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s says it rang up more than £100m (€122.7m) in sales on Christmas Eve in a record-breaking festive trading week.

The chain reported like-for-like sales up 0.9%, excluding fuel, in the 14 weeks to January 5 after its strongest ever performance in the week before Christmas, when it also notched up £16m (€19.6m) in one hour on Sunday December 23.