now, results are in for wh smith this morning.r the third quarter. the firm's travel business grew 3% as well, but its high street business fell i%. it comes as wh smith was recently voted the worst shop on the high street by which? that is harsh. the retail giant was ranked poorly for both customer service and value for money by more than 10,000 customers. it is the dodgy carpets. but have a twitter account! patrick 0'brien, uk retail research director at globaldata. not a huge surprise. we are forced to buy expensive chocolate and magazines at the airport and railway stations but the high street is struggling. we are used to seeing the travel business doing well but not as well as expected. like the light only up 3% this time but the high street, bat has been falling 5-796 high street, bat has been falling 5-7% in high street, bat has been falling 5—7% in recent quarters and this quarter, —1% and in the current climate that is not bad. why is it still doing not bad on the high street, given the fact that which said it was the wo

we've had an update from retailer wh smith this morning.s wh smith was recently voted the worst shop on the high street by which? the retail giant was ranked poorly for both customer service and value for money by more than 10,000 customers. joining us now is diane wehrle, marketing and insights director at springboard. nice to see you. first, your take on these figures because it is a familiar picture, retail at things like airports and railway stations doing well but high stores struggling. that is familiar but i was pleasantly surprised the results we re was pleasantly surprised the results were as positive as they were. their travel business has done well, it is the high street that is feeling the pinch but this reflects the data out there. springboard tracks football, there. springboard tracks football, the volume of pedestrian and shopper activity and that is declining by 1% activity and that is declining by 1% a year, so activity and that is declining by 1% a year, so for their sales to decline, they are tracking what is happening ou

the ftse 100 just about into positive territory, being helped by shares of wh smith, positive tradingthat waiting at train stations with the disruption of the timetables, who knows? smurfit kappa group. the disruption of the timetables, who knows? smurfit kappa groupm sounds like a cartoon. it is actually europe was met leading corrugated packaging maker. you learn something new everyday. i shall talk to you again a little later on. as our lives increasingly move online, more and more of our information is held in vast data centres, which consume large amounts of electricity. now in an experiment designed to work out how to improve energy efficiency, microsoft has sunk a small data centre in the sea, off the coast of orkney. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones explains. ever uploaded a photo, updated your facebook status, or maybe streamed some music? if so, you've probably used a data centre, where vast amounts of our personal information are now stored. but what if you could put all of that underwater? up in orkney, the tech giant microsoft is trying to do just that. this

wh that is how the ftse100 is looking. w h smithhe third quarter but its high—street business fell by 1%, but its share price doing more than ok. thank you, ben. we are going to talk now about brexit. the prime minister and labour leader have clashed in the commons over brexit. jeremy corbyn asked theresa may if she could say whether the brexit proposals would be published ahead of thejune eu summit. there was much more debate besides, so let's find out from norman smith, listening in the commons. so let's find out from norman smith, listening in the commonslj so let's find out from norman smith, listening in the commons. i had thought today might be dominated by the rail chaos with passengers in during misery all over the country, maybe donald trump's steel tariffs, but it was our old punchbag, brexit, with jeremy corbyn but it was our old punchbag, brexit, withjeremy corbyn challenging mrs may over the long lost white paper are not negotiating position. when will it emerge, he asked. we were told three weeks ago to a great deal of