The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

Watching fastanchts get made from start to finish at Emingee's, I was fairly certain the potato doughnuts wouldn't disappoint ...

In the 826-year-old Atherstone Ball Game, there are two rules, locals say: Keep the big leather ball on the main street, and don’t kill anyone.

A historic football game played since the 1100s has returned to the north of England this Shrove Tuesday. The Royal ...

Single-shaming customs were especially prevalent in Munster with the 'Skellig Lists' mocking, teasing and insulting unmarried ...

Residents of an English town gathered on Tuesday (March 4) to play a traditional soccer game with a twist – there are ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

Celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, around the world, Shrove Tuesday, or "Pancake Day," derives from the English word ...

Lent is a 40-day period preceding Easter Sunday where people from all denominations of Christianity practice self-sacrifice ...

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Lent is a period of 40 days which many Christians observe as a time of fasting, abstinence and penitence - here is everything ...

Bakeries in Estonia were already at work the night before Shrove Tuesday, getting ready the thousands of cream buns ...