So long as there are no more major skeletons to come out, we may have reached a low point. The recovery will be stuttering but the market will regain its composure.

We have reached saturation point commercially in Scotland and Ireland, which are our core markets, and we have to look at other areas, ... First and foremost, Du Wei is here as a footballer whom Gordon Strachan feels has great potential. If we can piggy-back on to that and get commercial benefits from it, all the better. The Chinese market is potentially even more lucrative than the Japanese one and we are already looking at a tour next year taking in both Shanghai and Japan.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

She was doomed, she was flooding and she was going down, but she had reached a point where there was an illusion that she would float a longer period. People were inside, not panicked, and suddenly the hull cracked.

The need for more funding has reached a critical point.