This guided tour of the Elizabeth Tower takes you up a narrow 334-step spiral stairwell to the belfry where Big Ben, the Great Bell, hangs. Along the route, your guide will reveal details of the most ...

Thousands of farmers have descended on London to stage protests on Tuesday - and they are using Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament as dramatic backdrops Changes to inheritance tax paid by ...

On New Year's Eve 1923, BBC engineer AG Dryland climbed onto a roof opposite the Houses of Parliament with a microphone to record the strikes of Big Ben and the quarter bells. Since then, the sounds ...

A bar inside the Houses of Parliament which found itself at the centre of drink spiking allegations last week has announced it's set to close its doors from Monday.

Parliamentarians and staffers have raised concerns that shutting the bar will not stop someone "crossing the road to one of ...

Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, House of commons, London, England, ferris wheel, park, parkland, tree, leaves, summer Houses of Parliament and Big Ben Posterised styled Big Ben in the Houses of ...

Henry Fox, MP and statesman, 1705-1774 The Houses of Parliament, otherwise known as the Palace ... home of the bell affectionately known as Big Ben. Sadly, neither Barry nor Pugin lived to see the New ...

From Big Ben—the massive, 15-ton bell that sits within the Great Clock of Elizabeth Tower, Westminster—to the gothic facade of the Houses of Parliament, London is awash in iconic buildings ...

The bells will still sound to mark New Year celebrations Parliament has defended silencing the chimes of Big Ben for four years ... to the Elizabeth Tower which houses the Great Bell, the Great ...

LONDON was nearly home to a central airport that would have been built on the Thames - with planes right by Big Ben and Parliament ... it right next to the Houses of Parliament.