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

I am amazed how Halloween decorated homes and shops have taken over Australia. It made me reflect on my childhood days. It wasn't about Halloween, it was about Guy Fawkes. So what changed?

In Edinburgh, riots erupted as youths disturbed residents' peace. Masked hooligans ignited bonfires in the streets, set trash ...

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

A dispersal order is being enforced in a town over the Halloween period in a bid to prevent anti-social and nuisance ...

Consumer spending on Halloween may have topped £1bn for the first time last year - but is it really more popular than the ...

Let me tell you about Barmbrack — you can get recipes for the yeast sort online. It would have a ring in the middle, wrapped ...

Folklorists created a through line from the Celtic pagan festival of Samhain to Halloween. But the Halloween we know today has more to do with the English, a 9th century pope and American consumerism.

To an older generation of Brit – the ones who can’t bear Halloween because it’s ... its “glorified begging” – 5 November is “Guy Fawkes Night”. Or Bonfire Night… or Fireworks ...

Halloween falls on October 31 each year. Over the centuries, Christians have had a variety of attitudes to it. This is the ...

So it is a shame that the foiled attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament more than 400 years ago is now so outshone by Halloween that ... have been left, like Guy Fawkes, to go hang.