Open but the safe is shut

A Barclays branch had its entrance bricked up by a property developer who built an 8ft by 4ft wall of breeze blocks, in protest at banks' unwillingness to lend to his business. Cameron Hope, who was eventually forced by police to remove the wall at the Barclays branch in Bournemouth, explained that he 'blocked the doorway as a way of saying that the banks are open but the safe is shut'.