Sack threat over royal fiasco

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By Chris Millar And Rob Singh, Evening Standard
7 April 2005

Senior police officers in charge of security at Windsor Castle are facing the sack today after the latest fiasco there.

The head of Royalty Protection, Commander Peter Loughborough, may be moved to other duties.

Scotland Yard chief Sir Ian Blair is said to be furious over the debacle that occurred three days before the royal wedding when an undercover reporter and a photographer drove a van into the centre of the castle with a box in the back marked "BOMB".
Sir Ian is said to be particularly angry that police manning checkpoints waved the vehicle through without carrying out basic security procedures. The reporter and photographer drove past St George's Chapel - where the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles is due to be blessed on Saturday - while the Queen was in residence.

Sir Ian has ordered an inquiry into the breach which is expected to be conducted by a high-ranking Yard officer.
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OFF with their heads!