Mr Baker, a modern languages student there between 1934 and 1937, and an unnamed friend took both the clock's hands – and kept one each. His daughter returned the hour hand late last year ...

Better late than never. The hour hand of a chapel clock that was taken in a student prank during the 1930s has been returned to a Cambridge college. The perpetrators of the prank were not known until ...

The hour hand was later inherited by Geoffrey’s daughter, Trixie Baker, who commented on the cardboard replacements, stating ...