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Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day is the traditional feast day before the Lent fast starts on Ash Wednesday. Today, ...

If you weren’t aware, today isn’t formally known as Pancake Day. I know, I know, it’s a day all about pancakes. However, it’s ...

Watching fastanchts get made from start to finish at Emingee's, I was fairly certain the potato doughnuts wouldn't disappoint ...

Pictures of the hundred playing the Sedgefield Shrove Tuesday Ball Game this year, 2025. Hundreds today gathered on the village green of Sedgefield to participate in the centuries old tradition. Set ...

A historic football game played since the 1100s has returned to the north of England this Shrove Tuesday. The Royal ...

Severn Trent are reminding customers to have a flipping good time this Shrove Tuesday, but to ‘be a binner, not a blocker’ by ...

It depends on the date of Easter, and therefore the date of Pancake Day, moves around with the Lunar Calendar. Easter is ...

Retailers' experience shows that the tradition of eating pea soup on Shrove Tuesday remains strong among Estonians, with ...

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It's a day of feasting and ...

The day earned its name from the Christian tradition of seeking absolution before the start of Lent. Pancakes became ...

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