Meeting tonight to decide location of Wellington clock

The fate of Wellington's community clock will be decided at a meeting tonight.

The £10,000 Millennium Clock was removed from the square and put up in the town's £7.5 million civic quarter earlier this year.

But campaigners, armed with a 5,725-name petition, persuaded Wellington town councillors to vote unanimously in favour of re-instating it in the square.

Wellington Town Council clerk Howard Perkins said because of work done in the square since the clock was removed, it would be impossible to restore it to its original position and a new site would be considered tonight.

He said: "The clock was taken out completely as well as the electricity supply, and all the gadgetry as well.

"It's not a question of returning the clock, it's also the mechanism and its supply. The whole package has to be considered. When it was agreed it should be returned to the square it didn't go any further than that.

"It wasn't agreed to return to a particular site. The detail will be considered before a recommendation is made and a decision by the council will be returned."