Britain continues to support a tie-up between British Energy and French energy group EDF, energy minister Malcolm Wicks said in an interview, AFP reports.

Speaking to the Financial Times last week while on a visit to Lagos, Wicks said a deal with EDF was "the most sensible option" and added that the government thought "that's the natural link".

He added, however, that while the government was "very intimately involved" in the negotiations, British Energy's future was "very much in its own hands".

Electricite de France, Europe's number one electricity producer, had been widely expected to confirm earlier this month that a deal had been struck to buy

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