In what was to prove the start of a series of scoops for Peston as the credit crunch began to bite, the BBC’s business editor revealed Northern Rock’s request to the Government for emergency funding.
The scoop helped fuel a run on the bank, at the time the UK’s fifth biggest lender, and savers queued outside its branches.
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