those those great spice people have a lot to look forward to mega laith so much for coming in to us today and we should remember that when the time when these same medium spicy it's very spicy now we have another series already underway called european weddings celebrating the contrasting wedding traditions in different european countries today we're off to italy sicily to be precise and it's perhaps no surprise that sicilian weddings a big in this case one with over 200 guests what is unusual about this wedding is the bearer of the rings not a normal tradition by the way and one thing of course that you come predict to the wedding is the weather. dark clouds cast a shadow over what should be the happiest day in a person's life. heavy rain puts paid to the dream of an open air wedding the couple live in the town of back area near the syrian capital palermo preparations for the wedding a well underway the couple's dog selma has a big role to play at the wedding she is to be the official ring bearer and needs to practice before the big day. amounting village near palermo is the place where

laith khalaf is senior analyst at hargreaves la nsdown. 9pa 9p a share last year, today they touchedion there. if you look at the sales performance, as well, sales declined over the year as a whole, but getting better towards the end of the year, and actually in positive territory over the last couple of months. some signs that the pace of decline is moderated, but still a very uncertain outlook for the company, its shareholders, and staff, as well. let's stay with retail, we had a dismal report from cbi about the state of retailing. the biggest fall for ten years. is that something to worry about, or are we at a comparison with a particularly good year last year? i think that's the case, it's never wise to drill too far down into just one month, or to put too much onus one month, or to put too much onus on one—month's performance. especially if we are looking at this year compared to last. if you look outside the window you can see what's happening, compared with last year when we had that heat wave, we had the football world cup, which caused a lot of activity, a lot of consumer ac