This week cities around the world will become splashed with color ... varied and is thought to date back thousands of years. Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day or Mardi Gras, is observed ...

The tasty tradition is popular not only in Ireland, but also in many other locations around the world, where it might be known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. The word shrove comes from the Middle ...

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London square with a frying pan in hand to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, or “Pancake ...

While pancake eating on Shrove Tuesday has been a custom for the past few centuries, the act of marking the beginning of Lent prior to Ash Wednesday has been around for far longer. According to ...

The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Wiltshire Council have ...

One of the earliest rules was 'no murder' - and one of the most recent is 'the ball must not be carried in a motorised vehicle!' ...

Hundreds of people packed into Guildhall Yard, cheering as participants in the annual Inter-Livery Pancake Race ran around ... or Fat Tuesday, in other parts of the world, the name Shrove Tuesday ...

Hundreds of people packed into Guildhall Yard, cheering as participants in the annual Inter-Livery Pancake Race ran around ... or Fat Tuesday, in other parts of the world, the name Shrove Tuesday ...

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around ... or Fat Tuesday, in other parts of the world, the name Shrove Tuesday derives ...