Today, Big Ben’s clock tower is one of London’s most famous features. It stands 320 feet high. The bell weighs 13.8 tons. You music lovers might like to know that the bell is tuned to the note.

The Great Clock of Westminster, which contains Big Ben, has stopped ticking for the second time in a week. It froze for roughly 30 minutes on Wednesday, a week on from displaying the wrong time ...

Big Ben will began to regularly chime again, after a special ringing for Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. The giant clock has had some important repair work, which paused the regular chimes ...

Negotiators are continuing to appeal to a man who is several metres up the clock tower of Big Ben to come down as darkness falls. The man, who scaled the tower at around 7.20am on Saturday and is ...

London’s Big Ben clock tower was not set alight in late January, despite fake images of the tower in flames circulating online. Skip to main content. Exclusive news, ...

Time appeared to stand still at the Houses of Parliament on Wedneday when Big Ben bell failed to chime due to a mechanical glitch. The four dials of the Great Clock - one on each side of the 96 ...

The four clock dials, one on each side of the 96-metre-tall Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben and four other bells, stopped at 12:55 p.m. (1155 GMT), leaving the bells silent at 1 p.m. Sign up ...

Big Ben consists of over 1,300 pieces of opal glass. Meanwhile, the clock tower itself, which stands majestically on the banks of the River Thames has also gone through a name change in 2012.

A British Union flag flies near Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, in London, UK, on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Big Ben is slated to return to full-time service Sunday, five years after the iconic ...