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The British Retail Consortium's latest data for March shows retail sales suffering their steepest fall in 16 years. But is there a glimmer of hope? Separate footfall figures, that's the number of people walking around town centres, have declined less steeply than previous years. We find out more from Diane Wehrle, research director at Springboard.

The latest official UK inflation data is out later this morning, with forecasts for the headline figure still far above the government's target of 2%. We talk to Andrew Lilico, director of Europe Economics.

From today businesses will be able to apply for cash, from the Coalition's 拢1.4billion "Regional Growth Fund". Andrew Cave joins us from the Federation of Small Businesses.

One website start-up that came to symbolise the burst bubble of the dot com era, was the fashion retailer boo.com. We speak to Ernst Malmsten, who founded boo.com and is now back with a new website.