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Debt financing (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
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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 2020 |  |  | 30 June 2019 |  |  | 31 December 2019 |
|  | £m |  |  | £m |  |  | £m |
Within one year |  |  | (249.8 | ) |  |  | (936.6 | ) |  |  | (324.8 | )
Between one and two years |  |  | (366.9 | ) |  |  | (327.7 | ) |  |  | (204.0 | )
Between two and three years |  |  | (532.0 | ) |  |  | (990.0 | ) |  |  | (692.1 | )
Between three and four years |  |  | (793.7 | ) |  |  | (496.1 | ) |  |  | (726.3 | )
Between four and five years |  |  | (1,145.4 | ) |  |  | (1,114.7 | ) |  |  | (634.2 | )
Over five years |  |  | (3,461.7 | ) |  |  | (3,500.3 | ) |  |  | (2,761.9 | )
Debt financing (including interest) under the Revolving Credit Facility and in relation to unsecured loan notes |  |  | (6,549.5 | ) |  |  | (7,365.4 | ) |  |  | (5,343.3 | )
Short-term overdrafts – within one year |  |  | (226.5 | ) |  |  | (335.9 | ) |  |  | (235.7 | )
Future anticipated cash flows |  |  | (6,776.0 | ) |  |  | (7,701.3 | ) |  |  | (5,579.0 | )
Effect of discounting/financing rates |  |  | 1,287.9 |  |  |  | 1,257.1 |  |  |  | 1,070.4 |
Debt financing |  |  | (5,488.1 | ) |  |  | (6,444.2 | ) |  |  | (4,508.6 | )

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