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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

If you’re hoping to see fireworks in and around Glasgow on Bonfire Night in 2024, you’ve come to the right place ...

Images show the disgraceful aftermath of Bonfire Night in Glasgow as the clean up following a night of chaos began on Wednesday. While many were celebrating Guy Fawkes Night on November 5, some thugs ...

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.