Scots wanted for speaking clock

Recording will take place in Braehead Shopping Centre on Monday

Scottish hopefuls are being sought for a new online video version of the speaking clock.

The watch-maker, Accurist, plans to put the faces and voices of ordinary people on its new British Real Time website, which launches on 12 September.

It is seeking 4,620 individuals to represent the time in hours, minutes and seconds using edited video clips.

Filming will take place at Braehead Shopping Centre, near Glasgow, on Monday between 1000 and 2100 BST.

Andrew Loftus, managing director of Accurist, said: "We have witnessed a change in the way people use, read and keep the time and the company feels it is time for a change to give the British public a time-keeping service that is current, modern and useful.

"We are particularly proud of our British heritage and we have chosen to express this by working with the British public to create a different, modern approach to time keeping."