Watch live as London's Elizabeth Tower, known as Big Ben, chimes to mark Armistice Day on Monday, 11 November. The bells also rang out on Sunday to mark the start of the two-minute silence on ...

Big Ben - the huge clock bell of Britain's Parliament - fell silent as a four-year restoration project gets underway on the Victorian clock and the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as Clock Tower).

Strictly speaking Big Ben, named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the Commissioner of Works when the bell was installed in 1859, refers only to the 13.5-tonne bell that chimes the hours, although it has ...

Luke Whelan, who witnessed the incident on his way to work told MailOnline: 'I was cycling to work when I noticed him climbing up Big Ben. 'He looked like he was live streaming himself or on a ...