The UK's largest insurer's 2025 results marked a fifth straight year of profitable growth.

While the £3.7 billion Direct Line acquisition, completed in July, contributed £174 million to operating profit, the group still grew profit 15pc year-on-year.

Amanda Blanc, Aviva's CEO, hailed the group's "excellent" results.

Aviva's offices in Surrey Street, Norwich (Image: Newsquest)

"We have achieved our 2026 financial targets one year early, highlighting the rapid and sustained progress we are making," she said.

"We are highly committed to growing our dividend and today we are announcing a final dividend of 26.2 pence per share, an increase of 10pc, and we are commencing a £350 million buyback.

"We have transformed Aviva over the last five years and whilst we have made significant progress, there is so much more to come."

Aviva is East Anglia’s largest private employer, with 5,700 people working at its Norwich offices in Surrey Street.

It has called the city home since 1792 and now has almost 22 million UK customers.

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