Time is standing still in Wimbledon with the town centre’s time piece motionless once again.

Like traffic in the Broadway below, the clock on top of The Prince of Wales Tavern remains static, less than two years after a successful Wimbledon Guardian campaign to get the hands turning after decades stuck in time.

Britain’s largest bar operator Punch Taverns, owner of the pub, finally agreed to stump up £10,000 to get the clock ticking after MP Stephen Hammond and actress June Whitfield joined the community campaign.

But now the replacement, a digital mechanism behind the face, has failed, sparking renewed calls for Punch Taverns to fix the clock.

Backing this paper’s Time to Tick campaign, actress and Wimbledon resident Ms Whitfield said: "The pub may say that it’s looking into fixing the clock but maybe it's time they started looking at it.

"That way they might notice that it's not telling the right time.

"It's time they clocked on. What's the point of having a clock that doesn't work? They may as well take it down if they're not going to fix it.

"It's small things like this that are extremely important and mean an awful lot to the whole community."

A spokeswoman for Punch Taverns said a horologist had already been to the clock and diagnosed the problem.

She said: "The Prince of Wales clock will be repaired once again.

"We have reported the issue to our contractors and are confident the problem will be resolved in the next few days.

“Unfortunately some technical issues have been experienced since the clock was changed from normal movement to digital.”