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A church faced a £50,000 bill to fix its historic clock. Two guys did it with two cans of WD-40.

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57% Informative

The clock at Grimsby Minster in eastern England stopped working 12 years ago .

The clock stopped running because of its age and its gears were "very dry" and "not in the right alignment" The company working on Big Ben's restoration quoted $ 50,000 to repair the clock.

Rick Haywood , 47 , and Jay Foley , 15 , were performing routine maintenance on the bells when they decided to give the clock a look.

VR Score

54

Informative language

51

Neutral language

12

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

24

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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