Fawkes - the most infamous conspirator behind a plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in 1605 - was born in York ...

Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – a thwarted act of terror in which a cabal of Catholic conspirators ...

Guy Fawkes Night remains well observed in pockets of Britain. In Ottery St Mary, Devon, locals carry flaming barrels of tar ...

On Bonfire Night, Jeremy Clarkson sparked controversy by burning a Donald Trump effigy, drawing mixed reactions as he mocked ...

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In Edinburgh, riots erupted, instigated by groups of youths who brutally disturbed the peace of residents. Masked hooligans ...

Police are investigating after a flammable liquid was hurled at the Palace of Westminster on Guy Fawkes Night. A 41-year-old ...

The 2005 political thriller focuses on an anarchist freedom fighter called V, who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and plots to blow up the UK Parliament on Bonfire Night in protest of a neo-fascist regime. V ...

COMMENT: Thanks to the increasing cost of putting on a public display, November 5 is fast becoming ‘No-Fireworks Night’ – but ...

My reaction to fireworks is a bit eccentric. Lovely, I think, but can’t they be more meaningful? To be more precise, this is my view of Bonfire Night, formerly known as Guy Fawkes night.

Tonight is Bonfire Night, and we’re looking back on how the event has been marked in Cumbria over the years.

The plot is commemorated every autumn with the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes, its mastermind, an oddly pagan act of gloating sanitised by the addition of fireworks, sparklers and toffee apples.