Deputy House of Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has denied allegations against him as "completely false", after being arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault.
In the meantime, while Europe has fiddled and denied reality, the Greek economy, labouring under a completely unsustainable burden and a debilitating level of uncertainty, has imploded.
Vickery has seen himself drop out of the Lions 22 completely - Andrew Sheridan taking the prop spot on the bench - and the disappointment of being denied the chance to make amends must be huge.