Big Ben has been tarted up after works costing £80million. A family visiting the Houses of Parliament in London were shocked to see scaffolding "thump" the ...
"There was a man in a cherry picker which was as high as they could get it and he was leaning over the edge pushing it away from the building. "As we were leaving out of the entrance, we could see all of the builders looking up and the odd workman running around looking frantic. "It hit the tower and we didn’t see anything fall but it made quite a thump."
Passerby Sarah Haynes shot the eye-opening moment of impact on her smartphone on 2 April, which shows the pristine clock tower being struck by the piece of ...
“It’s been tarted up for years and has been revealed just in time for the Platinum Jubilee and yet this bit of scaffolding kept hitting it on the way down." “There was a man in a cherry picker which was as high as they could get it and he was leaning over the edge pushing it away from the building. “We were in London for a weekend away and visited the Houses of Parliament for a tour," Haynes added.