More than 1,500 people lost their savings when Landsbanki Guernsey went into administration in October, leaving some of them facing an uncertain future. . .

. . . Neil Dickens, from the Landsbanki Guernsey Depositors Action Group, said many of its, mainly elderly, members were now in a place of "emotional despair".

The group's website is filled with stories of people struggling to get by without the money they had saved to see them through retirement.21-Apr-09.

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