A historic clock will be returned to Portobello’s high street after being out of commission for over 20 years.

Councillors agreed at Thursday’s finance committee meeting to spend about £150,000 to put the clock back in place on Portobello Baptist Church, which was once the burgh’s town hall.

It came down in 2003 over health and safety concerns, but has been in either maintenance or storage since then due to a range of reasons.

Among them was who actually owned the clock – a dispute which was finally resolved in 2019, when archival research found it belonged to the council rather than the church.

Mandy Watt, Labour councillor and Finance and Resources Committee convener, said: “The return of Porty’s historic Burgh clock will be welcome news to many.

“It has been in storage for many

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