Derbyshire's Double Dipped Doom

Renowned astrologer to the stars, fortune-teller Theodora Hunter has received a dire premonition of things to come for the Peak in the tide of the current Euro crisis and the economic tsunami of Wall Street 2008.

  "The vision was vague, you know, it wasn't strong but its made me very apprehensive", she revealed with an unnerving tremor to her usual cheery voice."  "I could see soup kitchens and bread queues, shoe clubs and food parcels.   It was just like the Great Depression of the 1930's, but worse. "

The most disturbing aspect of Theodora's fyeness was what appeared to be a militant uprising with terrifying scenes of abominable bloodshed and carnage.   "The images were very misty but I did make out what looked like an angry mob; men women and children.   Some wore hoods and balaclavas; all shouting and screaming, carrying clubs and throwing bottles and stones. ...