The Competition Commission (CC) has provisionally cleared the anticipated acquisition of Ottakar's plc by HMV Group plc through Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd, after concluding that the merger would not lead to a substantial lessening of competition in the market for the retail sale of new books to consumers in any part of the UK.

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