A TAILOR-MADE clock has finally been installed at a village hall, almost 100 years after the building was opened.

The £2,500 timepiece is also fit for the new Millennium, even though it has taken the Carter Institute, at Clanfield, seven years to see the project finally come to fruition.

The one metre in diameter public clock had to be specially made by Steve Fletcher - pictured right - of the Clock Workshop, in Witney's Bridge Street.

It was specially designed to fit into an original alcove, set into the external brickwork of the institute, when it was built in 1910.

And it has state-of-the-art technology, using transmissions from the country's radio signal station at Anthorn, on the west coast of Cumbria - which also controls the time on electronic networks, like speed cameras, cash machines, and mobile phone billing systems. Mr Fletcher said: "It also automatically adjusts to power cuts and the changes for summer and winter time. People in Clanfield will certainly have the correct time."

Colin Fowler, spokesman for the Institute, said: "We decided this was to be our Millennium project for the village. Finally, the building has its public clock."

Source: Witney Gazette