Meltdown in meltdown shocker

Just nine days ago (seems a lifetime) it was Cameron who was in ‘meltdown’ (The Observer). Today it’s Team Gordon who are in ‘meltdown’ (ConHome).

Other current ‘meltdown’ news items include:

• the hunt for Madeleine McCann (The Sun),
• the US subprime collapse (Daily Telegraph),
• Amy Winehouse (Showbizspy.com),
• Royal Mail deliveries in Coventry (icCoventry.co.uk), and
• Northern Rock (FTAdviser).

To name but a few.

Please can lazy sub-editors borrow a thesaurus, and try out a new cliché?