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"Pride Brighton and Hove are a new community interest company that has committed to ring fence a proportion of ticket income from the planned park event to go directly to charity to benefit the local LGBT community," she said.

With UK ring fencing a reality, we estimate the non-retail UK balance sheet is significantly larger than UK retail (over 70% of UK assets).

"That means that currently Europe has no ring fence against a possible Greek default, and that is what is pushing the market into a renewed panic," he said.

In addition we call for the IAAF to ring-fence a percentage of each of its commercial sponsorships to be used toward the funding and support of Clean Athletics.

The UN Convention on Genocide, agreed in 1948, offers a range of actions (killing, harming, imposing harsh conditions, restricting birth, forcible adoption) which are genocidal if committed with intent to "destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".As an attempt to ring-fence a particular category of mass annihilation, this presents huge problems.

The art of power English for Schadenfreude Correction: English wine Award: Anne McElvoy ReprintsThis week the shape of that change became clearer with the release of a report by the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB), which urged the government to impose a "ring-fence": a strict separation between the retail and investment-banking operations of Britain's banks.

This seems innocuous enough and it is, Dear Readers – or would be, if I didn't spend most of my life in transit and see even godchildren and Dear Chums only once a year if I ring-fence a dozen or so possibly compatible dates the preceding Christmas.

In continental Europe and jurisdictions such as Panama, foundations and anstalts serve a similar purpose.These arrangements can be wholly legitimate: ring-fencing a company's pension assets in the event of a takeover, for example.

However, its decision to protect health and education (ring-fencing a quarter of departmental expenditure), together with rising social security costs, meant spending across a range of other areas, including policing, housing and local government suffered huge cuts.

The problem is, ring-fencing a budget doesn't work when the institution you're claiming to protect is so infuenced by every other sector in government: these other departments are less protected and will face deep cuts, and inevitably the NHS will be affected.

There was also an eye-catching proposal to ring-fence a pot of money in the NHS to improve access to new drugs.