The Fall of Northern Rock: An Insider's Story of Britain's Biggest Banking Disaster

Some of the most memorable images of 2007 - if not of the decade - are those of people queuing outside branches of Northern Rock to withdraw their money. They are images from another age, or from another country, surely this could not have happened in the UK in the twenty-first century!

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