John Lewis weekly dept store sales up 11.5 percent

LONDON (Reuters) - British retailer John Lewis [JLP.UL] on Friday gave the following sales figures for the latest week compared with a year earlier. "In a strong trading week, John Lewis achieved sales of 82.2 million pounds ($119.8 million), an increase of 11.5 percent on last year," John Lewis said of the department store outcome. "The increase was down to a rise in footfall during half term week, which fell a week later than in 2015." (Compiled by James Davey)