*Hmmmm......interesting.  Don't know many details yet -- but I'm hearing that there's a run on the banks going on in Britain right now.  This story is not being widely reported in this country (US).

*erm thats 3 days old (your first link) and 6 days old (your second one) they are a little out of date...  and its bank (singular) just Northern Rock has been affected... no other banks have had runs on them....