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LONDON (Reuters) - British baby and maternity products retailer Mothercare posted a better-than-expected rise in full-year profit and said it was making good progress with its three-year turnaround plan. The group, which has some 1,300 stores worldwide including 255 in the UK, on Thursday reported an underlying pretax profit of 8.3 million pounds for the year to the end of March, up from 1.6 million pounds a year earlier and above the average 7.2 million pounds forecast in a Thomson Reuters poll of analysts. Total group sales fell 7.8 percent to 749. ...