British parliament should decamp for £3.9 bn repairs: lawmakers

British lawmakers should move out of London's iconic Houses of Parliament for six years while the crumbling building is renovated to avert a crisis, a parliamentary report said Thursday. Behind its neo-Gothic facades topped by the world-famous Big Ben clock tower, the mother of parliaments has been eroded by air pollution and is overrun with mice, prompting warnings it may have to be permanently abandoned unless urgent renovations are carried out. After a year of deliberations, the Joint Committ