P527 Teletext 527 Jan 9 22:14:54       —————— NEWS ——————————————————  REG VARDY PROFITS MOTOR AHEAD Accelerating car sales pushed half-year profits ahead, rapidly-expanding dealership group Reg Vardz announced. Its interim figure for the six months to October 31 rose bz a third to £8.20m on the back of a 21% sales increase. Earnings per share improved bz 21.6% to 10.7p, against 8.8p previously, and the interim dividend has been upped to 2.6p, from 2.25p in 1995. ——————————————————————————————————————— Financial Headlines 500 City Index 501 Download and Analysj Share Prices on Your PC See Pages 532 & 533 Next CityJndjx Shares Family Finance