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Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling were tonight meeting with finance chiefs to discuss the recapitalisation of the UK banking system after a turbulent day on the markets which also saw British savers hit by the collapse of the Icelandic bank Icesave. Meanwhile, Icesave’s 300,000 British now face a struggle to extract their cash, after withdrawals were blocked this morning when, Landsbanki, the Icelandic parent bank, went bust and was nationalised. More