SAGA PLC (SAGA) — Interim Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the SAGA PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Mike Hazel, CEO. Good morning, sir. Morning, everybody, and welcome to SAGA's results for the six months ended 07/31/2026. Quick look at today's agenda. I'm gonna take you through an overview of the fantastic progress we've been making in the last six months, and Mark will then take you through the financial performance in more detail. I will then return to give some more color behind that progress and talk about our individual businesses. So let's get started. Look. We really have had a very strong first half, and that's off the back of a strong performance last year. So we're now consistently delivering strong performance and growth, and it's performance built on a clear strategy. We've created a simple, resilient, and customer focused platform for growth. Over the next half an hour, you'll hear more about our newly combined travel business and how that's growing strongly. And you hear about the ongoing transformation in our insurance business that is now also delivering consistent growth. With revenues and profits now growing strongly across the group, we've increased our profit guidance for this year to between sixty five and seventy million pound. Tha...