The structure is enormous and features a five-star hotel, shopping mall and car park capable of holding over a thousand cars.

Even locals and taxi drivers use that name for it. But in fact that elegant Victorian edifice is the Palace of Westminster Clock Tower. Big Ben is actually the huge 13 ton (14.5 tonnes ...

which holds both the bells that make Big Ben's 'bongs' and the giant clock-face. The clock needed urgent repairs, and it was starting to move slowly. Before these repairs started, it had not been ...

But there is one clock that is among the most famous in the world: Britain’s Big Ben. It has been getting some repairs and the BBC was nice enough to make a video of the giant mechanism.

It went on: "Nothing special, really could just go my nan's house and see a clock except big ben's 10x bigger (where did Big Ben get its name by the way?)." Others found the clock "too big and too ...