Clothing helps retail sales edge up

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Retail sales edged up in May as the best month for clothing retailers in more than two years was offset by the impact of supermarket price wars.

The latest retail sales index from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG showed that like-for-like sales rose 0.5% compared with a year ago, with total sales when including shops open for less than a year up by 2%.