Should you buy into Britain's favourite shares?

Top private investor Paul Hill reviews the top five buy tips from a list of British investors' favourite 50 shares. Find out which of the top five - Partygaming, Lloyds TSB, Vodafone, Tesco and BP - are worth holding on to, and which he believes you should get out of.

British retail investors' favourite shares have been revealed in a recent survey based on data from two of Britain's biggest stockbrokers, HBOS and TD Waterhouse. As a one-off special, therefore, I've decided to review the top five buy tips from this list (reported in last week's Investors Chronicle). They may be British investors' favourites, but are they the best?

Favourite British shares #1. PartyGaming (PRTY: 125p)

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.