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 ...

Celebrated as Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, around the world, Shrove Tuesday, or "Pancake Day," derives from the English word meaning to seek forgiveness or be granted absolution. Skip to main content ...

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!' ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shrove Tuesday is a Christian festival marked all over the world but in the UK ... place in the village of Olney in Buckinghamshire at around 1445. The Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans ...

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 ...