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Debt financing (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
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Analysis of Future Anticipated Cash Flows in Relation to Group's Financial Derivatives and Debt | The following table is an analysis of future anticipated cash flows in relation to the Group’s debt, on an undiscounted basis which, therefore, differs from the carrying value:
|  | 30 June 2018 |  |  | 30 June 2017 |  |  | 31 December 2017 |
|  | £m |  |  | £m |  |  | £m |
Within one year |  |  | (175.7 | ) |  |  | (463.4 | ) |  |  | (391.7 | )
Between one and two years |  |  | (925.6 | ) |  |  | (423.7 | ) |  |  | (896.3 | )
Between two and three years |  |  | (594.8 | ) |  |  | (914.1 | ) |  |  | (584.3 | )
Between three and four years |  |  | (1,351.2 | ) |  |  | (358.6 | ) |  |  | (1,537.8 | )
Between four and five years |  |  | (496.7 | ) |  |  | (1,778.3 | ) |  |  | (487.9 | )
Over five years |  |  | (4,912.9 | ) |  |  | (5,009.2 | ) |  |  | (4,519.1 | )
Debt financing (including interest) under the Revolving Credit Facility and in relation to unsecured loan notes |  |  | (8,456.9 | ) |  |  | (8,947.3 | ) |  |  | (8,417.1 | )
Short-term overdrafts – within one year |  |  | (299.4 | ) |  |  | (644.5 | ) |  |  | (393.2 | )
Future anticipated cash flows |  |  | (8,756.3 | ) |  |  | (9,591.8 | ) |  |  | (8,810.3 | )
Effect of discounting/financing rates |  |  | 1,903.4 |  |  |  | 2,066.3 |  |  |  | 1,935.8 |
Debt financing |  |  | (6,852.9 | ) |  |  | (7,525.5 | ) |  |  | (6,874.5 | )

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