Online spending helps UK retail sales grow unexpectedly in July

LONDON (Reuters) - British retail sales unexpectedly edged up in July, helped by the strongest growth in online spending in three years, as consumers continued to support the economy before the Oct. 31 Brexit deadline. Monthly retail sales volumes rose 0.2% after a 0.9% surge in June, the Office for National Statistics said on Thursday, beating the average forecast for a 0.2% decline from a Reuters poll of economists.Compared with July 2018, sales were up 3.3%, slowing from 3.8% in June but at..