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Rescue package

It must qualify as the understatement of the year. A brief message on the website of the Icelandic online bank Icesave curtly informed its 300,000 British customers that they could neither deposit nor withdraw their money, adding: �We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.�

It must qualify as the understatement of the year.