Leighton had chronic lung disease, retinal haemorrhaging and a hole in his heart.

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However Plaid Cymru Leader Ieuan Wyn Jones accused the government of child's play and insisted that the Welsh economy was "haemorrhaging".

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He notes that the Catholic Church is haemorrhaging members in its centuries-old strongholds, and finding it difficult to recruit new priests.

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"We are losing, haemorrhaging money if you like, through white-collar crime, " says Ros Wright, who now chairs the Fraud Advisory Panel.

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It meant that Britain was "haemorrhaging jobs and opportunities to our rivals".

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Indeed, thanks to its legal-liability problems and the haemorrhaging of its clients, it would almost certainly have gone out of business anyway.

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The Robins boast a better goal return than three of the four teams above them, including Hereford, but at the other end they are haemorrhaging goals.

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With the party haemorrhaging support amid popular anger at austerity measures, he took the leadership after George Papandreou was forced to quit - first as prime minister, then as Pasok leader.

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Indeed, the entire private sector is haemorrhaging workers.

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The white churches include all the mainstream denominations, but they suffer from what might be called a European problem: they are haemorrhaging members and are run by an unrepresentative elite that is far to the left of the people in the pews.

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