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Big Ben has chimed with a slightly different tone ever since, and is still in use today with the crack unrepaired. Big Ben was the largest bell in the British Isles until "Great Paul", a 16.75-ton (17 tonne) bell currently hung in St Paul's Cathedral, was cast in 1881. [78]
New Year's Eve Fireworks; 10 2013–14 Susanna Reid: Gary Barlow's Big Ben Bash (Gary Barlow) [18] 13.52 11 2014–15 Greg James and Gemma Cairney: Queen + Adam Lambert Rock Big Ben Live (Queen + Adam Lambert) [34] [35] 12.50 12 2015–16 Ore Oduba: Bryan Adams Rocks Big Ben Live (Bryan Adams featuring Jon Anderson) [36] [37] 11.48 13 2016–17 ...
Big Ben will be struck 11 times at 11am to mark the start of the two-minute silence on Remembrance Sunday. Over the past five years the Elizabeth Tower, and the clockwork and bell mechanism within ...
The UK's most famous chimes were first broadcast live by the BBC on New Year's Eve 1923. Big Ben: New Year's Eve marks 100 years of live bongs on radio Skip to main content
The New Year's Eve festivities in London, England, have regularly consisted of a midnight fireworks show. The focal point of the festivities are the South Bank, where the chimes of Big Ben at midnight signify the arrival of the new year, and pyrotechnics are launched from barges along the River Thames and from the London Eye observation wheel.
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Then, in 1969, a new title sequence was introduced: a slow pan of the Houses of Parliament was followed by a sharp zoom into the face of "Big Ben" showing the time of 22:00. The text "Independent Television News" was shown at the start of the sequence, followed by the individual words "NEWS", "at" and "TEN", which appeared in time to the title ...