Sorry Ian...You're talking to someone who used to work for (what became) 'BT',  in the dim and distant past....When rubber bands and string were  the cutting edge of technology (says he making just a teeny weeny exaggeration...ahem !)
The old days of Grandstand ?.....Happy days !...Wonderful... 

Cheers - Phil

Wonderful Days ?

Saturday Afternoon with two channels showing 4+ hours of Horse Racing.........
Toher un having a foreign language art film.
IanS

Yup....

Sad how I used to enjoy watching the footy results come in on the teleprinter (?)....
But there was also Uncle Eddie Waring with the rugby league....Lots of people going round VERY muddy tracks on trails (?) bikes.....erm....Oh b*gger ...Was that really it ?.....maybe you're right !
Don't remember the foreign art films.....But you did have to get up and manually switch the channels over by physically turning a 'knob' on the TV.
Youngsters nowadays.....Don't know how easy they've got it....PAH !!!
Cheers - Phil.

On Radio 4 today they mentioned that all the other major high street banks are in exactly the same position as RBS, it's just that RBS was the one that broke first .

Does it surprise you?

Money is not invested but paid out as bonusses and dividends (mark : not salary for the line slime).

Tells you a guy that left banking in 2002 - Things did not get better since then.