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April 29, 2016
LONDON (AP) — Officials say the chimes of Britain's Big Ben bell will fall silent for several months during a three-year restoration of Parliament's crumbling clock tower.
The work — due to begin in January 2017 and cost 29 million pounds ($42 million)— is the biggest repair job on the tower in decades. It will include work to stop water seepage that threatens to crumble the stonework on the iconic 160-year-old structure.
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