Yes, the BBC will broadcast seven pips instead of the usual six. However, I leave it to someone else to verify this by direct observation, because my return flight from the western United States lands in London at 11 a.m. GMT on 31 December, and the combination of travel fatigue and the need to adjust my body clock by eight time zones means that I am very unlikely to be conscious at the critical moment :-)
David Harper -- Dr David Harper Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, England Tel: 01223 834244 Fax: 494919 http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/adh/
