The clock tower at St Clare College Girls' Junior Lyceum, Pembroke, (above) a landmark which can be seen when driving along the coast road, has been repaired. Following an initiative of Mr J. Camilleri, a teacher at the school it started ticking again on September 28 after a break of over 20 years.

The Foundation for Tomorrow's Schools agreed to sponsor the restoration project, which included procuring missing parts from abroad and installing a new electrically-powered mechanism that has a maximum margin error of two minutes per year.

In case of a power failure the system an in-built battery which can power the clock for 24 hours. In case of an even longer power failure the clock has a GPS synchronisation system installed which resets the time automatically when power is restored.

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