The clocks will be changing on Sunday morning as we welcome British Summer Time (BST), also known as Daylight Saving Time.

We may be losing an hour, but the evenings will be getting lighter and summer is on its way.

The clocks will go forward on Sunday at 1am, so that it will become 2am.

Clocks will go back on October 31, reverting back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and giving us an extra hour.

Why do we change the clocks

American politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin first came up with the idea, suggesting if people got up earlier, when it was lighter, they would save on candles.

However, it arrived in the UK after William Willett, a builder and Coldplay's Chris Martin's great-great-grandfather fought to have it introduced.

In 1907 he published a leaflet called 'The Waste of Daylight', encouraging people to get up and out of bed earlier.

It was discussed by government in 1908, but many people didn't like the idea.

It was introduced in the UK in 1916, a year after Mr Willett died.

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