NAMES IN THE NEWS : Downing St. Gates Don’t Fit
Steel security gates built across Downing Street to block the entry to the official residence of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher do not fit, photographs published today suggest.
A chain and padlock holding the gates together was published in the Guardian newspaper.
But a spokesman for the Property Services Agency, the body that deals with government property, said work on the 10-foot-tall gates hasn’t finished.
“These gates have been put into position, but final adjustments will not be made until next week, which was always the timetable for this job,” he said.
“You get so far with the job and then you send your technicians in to finish it off. They will come next week. It is not therefore true to say that the gates don’t fit. It is much ado about nothing.”
The gates are backed up by a steel screen designed to spring up from the road in the path of any attacker.
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