Panicked customers queue for savings

IT COULD have been a queue for Rolling Stones concert tickets, but the despondent faces of those waiting said otherwise.

From dawn yesterday, anxious customers began lining up to get their hands on their savings, inheritance money and pensions from Northern Rock bank.

Nerves were frayed and most were past the point of caring about not being able to access the bank’s online facility or helpline since last week, when the British-based firm’s flow of cash ran out.