This year it falls especially late on Tuesday, March 4, much later than in 2024 when it took place on February 13. The last ...

Shrove Tuesday is traditionally for people to gain penance from God before they begin fasting, which is why it falls on the ...

What is Shrove Tuesday and when is it celebrated? - Butter your frying pans because Pancake Day is nearly upon us ...

Similar to Christmas, Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday has Christian origins. Religiously speaking, Shrove Tuesday is a day of ...

Public realm works in Dig Street and Buxton Hill will close down on Friday 28 February to make way for thousands of players ...

M&S has launched a "better than Nutella" viral spread that’s perfect for Pancake Day, with Shrove Tuesday now just weeks away ...

Your mind may be on all things Valentine’s right now, but just a few weeks away lies an arguably more important day: Pancake ...

Carnival transforms the island March 2-5, featuring five days of parades, music and French Caribbean culture. It's the ...

The tradition of eating pancakes to see in the ... While pancake eating on Shrove Tuesday has been a custom for the past few centuries, the act of marking the beginning of Lent prior to Ash ...

"It's deeper than abstaining from ice cream," said Fr. Bill Swichtenberg of St. Mary Catholic Community in Appleton.

This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025, and ends after nightfall on Sunday, April 20. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover commemorates the ...

The date has been announced for the Wallingford Pancake Day Race 2025, in the latest time-honoured event to take over the town on Shrove Tuesday.