LONDON — Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled building at ...
May 17 (UPI) --A House of Commons panel warned parliament on Wednesday of a "real and rising risk" that years of delay would see the crumbling Palace of Westminster destroyed by a catastrophic event ...
Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to "an archaic and undemocratic principle." The removed ...
When we think of London, we picture Big Ben and the sprawling Palace of Westminster along the Thames. And the Palace is where the House of Commons conducts its lively debates, but the building is ...
Managers of the U.K.’s Houses of Parliament continue spending about $125 million per year patching up the crumbling structures and ailing services of the 1,100-room Victorian-era complex by the River ...
Syed was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Syed was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Every year, without fail, the U.K.’s State Opening of Parliament sparks renewed ...