London's Big Ben clock tower got its original blue hour and minute hands back after cleaning. The ongoing restoration project, which began in 2017, is set to finish next year, Reuters said.

The timepiece in the structure was frozen at 9am until gone 10am, before its hands were seen being moved ... One said on X: 'Big Ben has stopped, there are horses on the loose in London.

The Big Ben in London’s Great Clock of Westminster ... for the first time on May 10 and on Wednesday this week, with all hands freezing for roughly half an hour, the BBC reported.

The Big Ben clock stopped on Wednesday morning, with the hands stuck at 9am and the wrong number of bongs sounded. The Elizabeth Tower clock appeared to stop for about an hour, before showing the ...

Clock hands on all four sides halted for about half an hour from 09:00 BST on Wednesday, and the Big Ben bell failed to produce its famous "bong". The hands were moved forward, but witnesses have ...

Big Ben Restored: The Grand Unveiling is available ... The top of the tower is going to be stripped down to its original frame... its giant hands, over 4 meters long, removed.

Big Ben had an £80 million makeover with a painstaking ... Following restoration off-site, the clock hands have been painted to match the original Prussian Blue colour scheme on the clock dials ...

This has been Big Ben’s longest silence. In its 163 years, the bells (and the clock’s hands) have been quieted or slowed just a handful of times — by heavy snow and freezing temperatures ...

Half an hour later, the clock hands were moved forward but the clock ... the clock is now functioning as normal." The 13-tonne Big Ben bell was largely silenced for five years while a major ...