Summer time arrives
BRITISH Summer Time began at 1am today when clocks should have been put forward one hour. It ends at 2am on 24 October, when clocks go back.
For the first time, all Europe changed its clocks on the same night. The time in Britain, the Irish Republic and Portugal remains an hour behind the rest of Western and Central Europe. In North America summer time begins on 4 April.
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