It is believed Guy Fawkes planned to use the lantern's candle to light the fuse as part of his gunpowder plot A lantern believed to have been carried by Guy Fawkes on the night he was arrested is ...

The former school of gunpowder plotter Guy Fawkes is all set for its annual fireworks display - but there will not be a bonfire or a guy, the head teacher has said. Fawkes - the most infamous ...

To an older generation of Brit – the ones who can’t bear Hallowe’en because it’s “an American import”, who have no time for pound-shop orange and spider-themed tat, and who won’t do Trick or Treat ...

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.

The wonderful thing about Guy Fawkes/Bonfire/Fireworks Night was that it was a bit homemade and shonky. It also fills our primeval desire to sit around a fire during the darkest periods of the ...

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.

The Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is calling on Capetonians to rethink celebrating Guy Fawkes. Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated annually on November 5 ...

A stunning 22ft Guy Fawkes face replica was the standout feature of an Oxfordshire bonfire night this weekend. The Wallingford 1155 Fireworks and Bonfire was held on Saturday, November 2 and saw a ...

A SHOCKING docu-drama shows Guy Fawkes was merely a minor player in a wider plot to assassinate King James I. Conspirators planned to blow up Parliament at its opening on Novem-ber 5, 1605 ...

Remember remember the fifth of November... It’s Guy Fawkes, which means a sleepless night for some of our furry friends. For more than 400 years, the English Catholic’s failure to blow up the ...

Scotland is set to experience a mild but cloudy Guy Fawkes night on Tuesday with temperatures sticking at around 10 degrees throughout the day and evening across the country. Glasgow could even ...

CAPE TOWN - The City of Cape Town is urging parents to keep a close eye on their children ahead of Guy Fawkes Day on Tuesday. The city said that, unlike the Drakenstein Municipality, it could not ...