The Palace of Westminster including St Stephen's Tower housing the famous Big Ben clock in London, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. British lawmakers are considering whether they will need to abandon the House of Commons for the first time since World War II. Legislators were meeting Monday to discuss if future maintenance work to the Palace of Westminster _ home to the Commons and the House of Lords _ would need the two chambers to briefly move out. Consideration of possible repairs follows the disclosure in October that Parliament's clock tower _ often known as Big Ben _ is nearly 18 inches (nearly half a meter) out of line. The palace, which was rebuilt in the mid-19th Century, is expected to need major repairs in the coming years. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
The attempts to access pornographic websites via the United Kingdom Parliamentary network between May 2012 and July 2013 numbered in the hundreds of thousands, information given by the House of Commons authorities to the Huffington Post UK on a Freedom of Information request suggests. Users of the Parliamentary Network servers include Members of Parliament and their staff who together number 5,000. The figures peaked for 2012 with 114,844 attempting to access porn websites. The sources said the figures, which vary sharply month to month — 15 in February 2013 to 55,552 in April, the highest this year — could have been inflated by websites automatically refreshing.
