sincerest apologies. I remember what I was doing when I heard about an aircraft flying into a sky-scraper in America. That Friday, September 9th, I was working as a cashier in a flagship city-centre bank in the North of England. A small, portable radio was on in the adjoining room where we would count large deposits of money. I heard the announcer say that an airplane had flown into the World Trade Centre and I remember thinking, "is this the end of the World?" and that I wanted to go home to be