to find out who was responsible for the Millennium Clock on many occasions but had never been successful. Moor Centre Clock "I suppose building the clock was a good gesture," he said. "But the fact that it has never really worked properly makes the shopping centre look quite forlorn. "It has always struggled to compete with the likes of Merry Hill. With the clock always wrong it just looks as though no-one cares about the place. Still, it does make me chuckle when I walk past." The Sunday Mercury has learned that the clock is maintained by Mason & Parkes Limited, who are the current owners of the shopping centre but they were unavailable for comment last night. Many ambitious projects were dreamed up to mark the Millennium but fell flat on their face. The Millennium Dome in London was a national embarrassment until promoters took over, and renamed it the 02 Arena. In the Midlands, the Eternal Flame in Birmingham's Centenary Square spluttered out. The Sunday Mercury revealed in 2004 how the eternal flame had only lasted four years before it was extinguished because nobody could agree who should pay the 12,000-a-year gas bill. The 72,000 flame was lit by Sir Cliff Richard on Millennium Eve to promote world peace and harmony. It had been a gift to the council from Birmingham Churches Together, a coalition of Christian churches in the area. But Birmingham City Council refused to pick up the bill for the 33ft-high sculpture and argued that