Letter: Build a clock to mark 2000
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: J W Dixon's suggestion (letter, 20 January) that cities, towns and villages should erect millennium clocks gives me an idea. What we should do is have a Grand Millennium Clock Competition, in which anybody can compete to build interesting clocks designed for use in public places.
Competing clocks would form the Grand Millennium Clock Exhibition in 1999. At the closing ceremony, prizewinners would be selected, and TV cameras would record the clocks passing midnight. After this there would be a Grand Millennium Clock Auction.
ALAN ROBINSON
York
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