A happy conclusion to one of the ongoing sagas

My bank, Lloyds, has sent me an *extremely* apologetic letter, assured me that cheques made out to me will no longer suffer the ignominious fate of being refused, and have given me £50 to say sorry.

I could've done much, MUCH worse out of that one. :-)

... are you shitting me

Official cost of the bank bailout: £850 billion. [The Indy was the first google hit so w/e.]

The deficit of the first ever NHS trust to be put into administration? £150 million.