BUZZ-Whitbread: solid Costa pushes shares to top of Stoxx
** Whitbread +3%, top of Stoxx 600 and top FTSE 100 riser by some margin, boosted by solid showing from Costa
** Q1 group LfL sales +1.8% (v 2.1% cons flagged by Jefferies)
** Costa LfL +2.6% (beats +2% consensus flagged by Jefferies); Premier Inn LfL +2.1% (misses +2.5% cons flagged by Jefferies)
** Company remains confident of making good progress for FY
(RM (LSE: RM.L - news) : tricia.wright1.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)