The Treasury, which hasn't helped matters by heaping new taxes on banks and pushing ahead with expensive and useless Vickers ring-fencing proposals, now sees this.

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He has explored crystal growth, and developed, with a specialist in nature-related algorithms, a 3-D program mimicking the way crystals actually grow over millions of years (with this particular program, he and the scientists he has been working with made virtual crystals grow directly on a ring-like structure on their computer, almost instantly, then manufactured them with a 3-D printer).

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That's the mentality I'm going in the ring with - I have to go and win this to move to the next level.

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Local lore has it that Buddha looked at this location between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers with its ring of lushly forested mountains and predicted that a great city would someday be built here.

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Yet can religious faith, with its many political and social consequences, be neatly ring-fenced in this way?

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Mr Hill welcomed this pledge but said he was concerned that the money had not been ring-fenced, and with reductions to local authority budgets, there was a risk that social care and support services would still see cuts.

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Not content with apparently scaring this merchant to death, Griffin then demands her diamond engagement ring, which she removed and gave to him.

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