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It's live in the newsroom. Glass panelling wasn't installed in N9 until 2004.

Originally I believe that access to the presenter's position at the desk was even through a gate within the metal barrier.

I can't find the picture of it, I think it had been removed at some point, although this is a picture (from a later nostalgia report) which clearly shows there is no glass screen between newsroom and presentation area.

Yes, many of the sets in N9 were so tight that presenters had to get onto set via a gate behind the desk - in fact his continued into the cream and red era. Indeed, you can see it to Nisha's right on this picture of the second cream and red set.