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.

Since Scouting America Troop 707 was founded in 1966, it has held a pancake dinner the last day before Lent to fundraise.

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London ...

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London ...

Also known as the Day of Ashes, this traditional day of repentance for Christians, and observed by various denominations, ...

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.

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

COMMENT - The Archbishop joined Scott Mills on BBC Radio 2 Breakfast this morning to deliver a Pause for Thought. This ...

FOR this Nostalgia edition we wanted to take a look at Pancake Day. Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent begins, when people would traditionally use up all their fat and eggs by ma ...

Pancakes aren’t just for weekends. Whether it’s Shrove Tuesday or just a plain old Wednesday, here’s where to get your hit. In the age of World Chocolate Day and National Corn Chip Day ...

At the time, to shrive meant to confess, and so the day ultimately became known as Shrove Tuesday after the past tense of the verb. This 1681 etching depicts a Shrove Tuesday procession in ...

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, will be hosting a Shrove Tuesday Community Pancake Supper on Tuesday (3/4.) Years back, folks used to "remove" the stuff they couldn't eat while fasting to avoid ...