A spooky reminder from Wigan tea room staff that the clocks go back an hour this Sunday
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Staff and volunteers held spooky celebrations at the re-launched Chapter One Tea Room at Hindley Library and Community Centre, with a variety of Hallowe’en events, and in the process reminded readers that clocks go back this weekend.
At 2am on Sunday October 29, we leave British Summer Time until March and return to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), signalling slightly lighter mornings for a short while but darkness descending in the late afternoon.
But at least it means that we all get an extra hour in bed.
GMT is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight.
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