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Next is the first high street name to report its trading in the run-up to Christmas.

Next becomes the first of the high street names to report its trading in the run-up to Christmas, and weekly figures for the number of flu cases in England and Wales are published.

Retailers have just dusted themselves down after the Christmas sales scrum. Today Next becomes the first of the biggest High Street names to report its trading in the run up to Christmas. We speak to Tom MacLennan, head of lender services at the accountancy firm RSM Tenon, who works with troubled businesses and their lenders.

Weekly figures for the number of flu cases in England and Wales are published. We ask David Hutcheson, Managing Director of Glen Abbot which advises companies on developing continuity plans, how businesses should deal with the high level of absences right now owing to flu?

Spain has to re-finance billions of euros of debt in the coming months, while investors are demanding a higher rate of return to hold Spanish bonds. Santiago Carbo-Valverde, Professor of Economics at the University of Granada, joins us to discuss getting Spain's finances back on track.

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