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M&S results worst in 2 years

By James Blake

Updated on 09 January 2008

Despite a celebrity backed advertising campaign, one of the UK's biggest retailers Marks & Spencer has posted its worst quarterly sales in more than two years.

Shares in the retailer plummeted almost a fifth after the update this morning, wiping more than one and a half billion pounds of the company's value.

The figures provide the strongest evidence yet that the high street is facing tough times ahead.

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