Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of mass street ...

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Bradford-on-Avon’s renowned Pancake Day Race took place over the weekend, as competitors and attendees took to a new location ...

After the double grand march at the conclusion of the Carnival season of almost two months, the monarchs of the Rex ...

A care home held a pancake flipping competition to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. Staff and residents at White Lodge care home in ...

The celebration of Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday this week launched the solemn season of Lent, which is 40 days of reflection, ...

St. Mary's Episcopal Church hosted its 70th annual Shrove Tuesday Oyster Supper on Tuesday at the Parish Hall.

Lucia Johnstone, 84, of Stonington took a break from prepping for the Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner late Tuesday afternoon to ...

Faster Pussycat frontman Taime Downe's fiancée, Kimberly Burch, has died after a tragic fall from a cruise ship. For $2 a go, ...

An ancient football game in Derbyshire has finished with a victory to the Down'Ards. Thousands of players turned out again ...

David Beckham has a soft spot for his only daughter Harper Seven, 13, who he shares with wife Victoria Beckham, and his ...