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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)