Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Marks & Spencer Analyst Call. This meeting is being recorded. At this time, I would like to hand the call over to Archie Norman. Please go ahead, sir.

Archie Norman

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our results session. It's a very good day today because we've got a decent set of results and excellent weather coming for the bank holiday weekend. And so we got here in this room, obviously, Stuart, Alison is here, Fraser and a whole lot of other people who don't get to say anything. But we're going to start off with Stuart's usual opening.

Stuart Machin
CEO & Director

Thank you, Archie. Well, good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. When we held this call a year ago, it was under very different set of circumstances, and I'm pleased to say we are in a far better place today and as a team, very much looking forward. Let me give you a take on last year. This was a year of 2 halves.

The first half, as