The clocks have gone back an hour, ending British Summer Time and bringing three months of darker afternoons across Britain

At 2am this morning the time became 1am as Greenwich Mean Time returned, handing millions an extra hour in bed. Most workers and pupils will now head home in the dark until Sunday March 28, when the clocks go forward again. Devices on WiFi or 5G update automatically. The ritual is little more than a century old, and there have been repeated calls to scrap it.

Edwardian builder William Willett first pushed the idea in his 1907 pamphlet 'The Waste of Daylight'.

Parliament rejected the idea five times before wartime coal shortages forced the Summer Time Act in 1916.

Willett never saw his plan become law because he died in 1915.