IoM depositors take fight to Trafalgar Sq's fourth plinth

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After launching a YouTube campaign to raise awareness of their plight, disgruntled depositors in collapsed bank Kaupthing Singler & Friedlander Isle of Man (KSFIoM) have taken to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square to voice their gripes.

Nick Campling, representing the KSFIoM Depositors' Action Group (KSFIoMDAG), took to the plinth last Saturday as part of sculptor Anthony Gormley's One & Other live art project. One & Other is inviting 2,400 members of the public occupy the usually vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour each for 100 days. The collapse of KSFIoM has frozen many depositors' savings since October last year. Campling filled his one hour plinth slot by warning onlookers not to bank on the Isle of Man and sang a song inspired by the collapse of the bank called ‘Manx Alchemy'. He was j...

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