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Fund turns back the tide of time for city landmark; AS the latest pounds 2m tranche of Lottery grants are distributed, arts correspondent IAN HILL looks at why they are going to an off centre clock, a one-time lunatic asylum and a cinema which showed its last film almost 70 years ago.(News)

PRINCE Albert would indeed be pleased. For at last his Belfast memorial, the Albert Clock, is to be set to rights. Or nearly so, for the pounds 1,064,000 which Belfast City Council awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund will stabilise the structure's inclination to imitate the leaning Tower of Pisa.

Publication: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Chesapeake Racers Rely on Clock's Stroke to Catch Turning Tide

Next Sunday morning, 600 people will wade into the Chesapeake Bay north of Annapolis and swim toward the Eastern Shore, following the corridor formed by the twin spans of the Bay Bridge. Within four hours, almost all will make it across the 4.4 miles of open water. Training and willpower on each

Publication: The Washington Post

Time and tide ; MORE FOR YOUR MONEY ++ Coggeshall is the small village that's big on history - and antiques. Robert Liebman turns back the clock

A pleasant and picturesque village today, Coggeshall was once where it was all happening in the wool trade. That was between the 15th and 17th centuries. And when wool became passe, the locals turned to lace. Located between Colchester and St Albans, this village was settled in Roman times and was

Publication: The Independent - London

Island life: Time and tides wait for no woman

SEVEN-year-old Dale (with a little help from a mail order catalogue and my credit card) gave me a tide clock for Christmas. This is an ingenious device. It looks like a normal clock, but is actually set up so that the hand rotates once every 12 hours, 25 minutes and 15 seconds. It therefore keeps

Publication: The Scotsman

Time and tide wait for this man... Clockmaker, 78, solves riddle of sun, moon and sea.

FOR centuries, the problem of accurately predicting the times of high and low tides has baffled the most skilled of clockmakers. In nearly three hundreds years of trying, their most successful efforts were often wrong by up to an hour. But now a retired clockmaker from Edinburgh has come up with a

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)

Camp Hill turns back Tide - again; Lions' defense throws clamps on Columbia for 19-8 triumph

Long after the final seconds ticked off the clock and the fans had gone home, there were hugs all around for the few Columbia senior football players still lingering on the field. Unfortunately for the Tide, there were also plenty of tears accompanying those hugs as the players were left to reflect

Publication: Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA

TIDES FALL, BUT FANS SAVOR A SPECIAL EVENING.(SPORTS)

Byline: Rich Radford The Virginian-Pilot NORFOLK -- With an advance sale of 8,800 tickets for Tuesday night's game, the Norfolk Tides took their cue from the U.S. Postal Service. Neither rain nor hail nor dark of night was going to keep this game from being played. And played it was, long into the

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

Money in the bank for Tide Paciorkowski beats Guertin at the buzzer; Boys' basketball; Girls' basketball

Staring a two-point deficit in the face with just 2.4 seconds showing on the clock, the Concord boys' basketball team needed a miracle. And that's just what the Crimson Tide got. Marty Paciorkowski grabbed a deflected inbounds pass and banked in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send Concord home with

Publication: Concord Monitor