A joint committee of members of Parliament and Lords has warned that, without at least six billion in funding rebuild Big Ben, the landmark will suffer a “catastrophic event.” I do not claim ...

LONDON — The Great Bell of the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster, known to all as “Big Ben,” is scheduled ... at the crumbling Houses of Parliament. At 11 a.m. Friday, the Keeper ...

Parliament even called a special meeting to choose the name for the new bell. Sir Benjamin Hall, who was affectionately known in the house as “Big Ben ... 4b, 5a Art Standards 2, 3, and ...

Big Ben has gone silent for ... newspaper (the one that called Big Ben’s silence “the death knell of common sense”) because they said parliament should vote on how we should formally start ...

All faces of the Houses of Parliament’s clock tower will be put back for the first time in five years. Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle and Big Ben (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor ...

The landmark tower at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster is wrongly known around the world as Big Ben. In fact, the tower housing the bell was previously known simply as the “Clock Tower ...

Indeed, when Parliament is in session, there is a special illumination above the dials, which Mr. Watrobski said represented “the light of freedom and democracy.” Big Ben, he added ...

as they tested out Big Ben for his return to full-time bonging. We don’t know exactly when his services will fully resume, but parliament is going to announce the date for the return of the ...

Hopeful visitors would have to write their representative in Parliament for security assurance, an action that international visitors are unable to take. Times have changed, though, and Big Ben ...