Thanks partly to the diversity of its business, Citigroup, the world's largest financial-services group, has so far managed to buck the tide.

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Farrell came on for the last 21 minutes at blind-side flanker but could do little to stem the tide as the Blues went back to the top of the group B table as the only side with two wins out of two.

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The group were thought to have been trapped by the incoming tide in the Solway Firth but a coastguard search failed to find any sign of them.

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