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The eagerness to join the queue to buy Northern Rock never came close to matching the rush to line up outside its branches to pull savings out.

But at least the sale means that the beginning of the end of a disappointing British banking saga has arrived.

Northern Rock stood for all that went bad in the UK’s banking system, as those who should have known better bundled recklessly into a headlong rush to throw money at borrowers, believing that the days of easy credit could never end and house prices could never fall.

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