Alistair Darling, our Scottish chancellor, has been quite categoric that the blame for the current financial crisis should be attributed to The City.

So Northerners should blame their greedy Southern cousins! 

Just a minute, lets have a look at a few of those that have been hardest hit. The clues are in the names - Northern Rock, Halifax Bank of Scotland, Bradford & Bingley…

Maybe not so blameless up North?