Dunfermline Building Society

Yes again, Gordon Brown is reassuring savers in collapsed institutions, This time the Dunfermline Building Society.

BBC online news ":Mr Brown, speaking from Chile, said: "The savers will be protected. It is important to recognise that throughout this whole crisis everyone that has been saving in a UK institution has been protected, whenever there has been a difficulty in that institution.

"I repeat that it is our determination in restructuring the banks to make sure that people's savings will be even safer in the years to come."

So why are we the only savers that are left out in the cold?