George cheers as the cuckoo emerges from the floral clock at Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to ...

In 1995, teacher George Thomson took his P7 class more than 100 miles from their school in Aberdeen to see the wooden cuckoo at Edinburgh's famous floral clock. But much to his horror, when they got ...

Meet Roman Pierkarski, the man who's spent decade upon decade amassing a collection of more than 700 cuckoo clocks. For the last 45 years Roman and his brother Maz have scoured the world buying and ...

Jeff Bezos is no stranger to moonshots. But this one's not heading to space—it's heading deep inside a mountain. The Amazon founder and world's third-richest man has spent a cool $42 million building ...

Let's be more like Switzerland!” exclaimed one excited activist at the Lib-Dem conference this week. I had a momentary mental flash of the stunt-happy Sir Ed Davey flying out of a cuckoo clock pursued ...

Edinburgh's Lord Provost has officially opened the newly completed floral clock in the city's West Princes Street Gardens. This year the landmark celebrates the Royal National Institute of Blind ...