After months at a standstill, Wimbledon’s town centre clock is ticking again thanks to the Wimbledon Guardian.

In January, the time piece above the Prince of Wales Tavern ground to a halt for the second time in recent years.

But the pub’s owners have clocked on and faced up, putting their hands in their pockets to pay for repair work following our Time to Tick Campaign.

Punch Taverns refused to pay £10,000 for the clock to be repaired in 2008 until Wimbledon celebrities and politicians, including June Whitfield and Stephen Hammond MP, joined calls for the country’s second largest pub operator to restore the town centre focal point.

But when the clock broke down for a second time, Punch Taverns responded by sending a horologist to the Broadway earlier this month to diagnose the problem and fix the clock.