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News and views from the business world with Mickey Clark and Dominic Laurie.

The number of people who went shopping was up 16% on last year. We speak to Diane Wehrle, research director at Springboard Research, the company who measure footfall in shopping centres around the country.

A 91热爆 survey of a group of economists shows that two-thirds think interest rates won't rise until August at the earliest. The Bank of England base rate has been held at 0.5% since March 2009, a total of 25 consecutive months. We are joined by George Buckley, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank who is one of the 22 economists surveyed.

What was the financial landscape like the last time we had a big royal wedding? We speak to Gavin Oldham, chief executive of the Share Centre, about what The City was like in 1981 when Charles and Diana got married, as part of 5 live's 1981 Day.

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