Big Ben - the huge clock bell of Britain's Parliament - fell silent as a four-year restoration project gets underway on the Victorian clock and the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as Clock Tower).

Strictly speaking Big Ben, named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the Commissioner of Works when the bell was installed in 1859, refers only to the 13.5-tonne bell that chimes the hours, although it has ...

Plans to build the UK's tallest wind farm with turbines that could stand at twice the height of Big Ben have sparked fury from locals. Critics have claimed that the development would ...