It tolls for thee: £5m needed to save Britain’s last major bell foundry

Loughborough stakes hopes of survival on lottery bid as historic Whitechapel site fights off developersIt is said that, every day, 20 million people in Britain hear the chimes of a bell cast at Taylor’s of Loughborough. It is the last foundry still casting full sets, known as rings, of church bells. It has produced them for St Paul’s Cathedral and for Yale University. You can even hear one tolling on the AC/DC track Hells Bells.Now, however, the foundry is desperately seeking £