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Each year thousands of adults of all ages and sexual persuasions visit the Olympia Exhibition Centre's Erotica event in search of products to enhance their lifestyle. Exhibitors sell…
London's Skin Two Rubber Ball Weekend is one of the biggest fetish gatherings in the world, with events at venues around the capital. Naturally there is a strict dress code - think tight…
On this special night, Mousehole residents cook up local dish Stargazey pie (which has fish heads sticking out) in celebration of Tom Bawcock - a fisherman who braved huge waves to alleviate…
Every Christmas Eve the bell of Dewsbury parish church is tolled once for each year of the Christian era, to remind the devil of his defeat. Now with over 2,000 tolls each year it's a…
Peter Pan Cup Christmas Morning Race
If you happen to have thick skin or an excruciating hangover and have got nothing better to do on Christmas morning, make your way to Hyde Park's Serpentine Lido. The Peter Pan Cup Christmas…
The Bournemouth Spartans Winter Sea Swimming Club combine stamina with crazy costumes for their annual dip into the English Channel on Christmas Day morning, just by Boscombe Pier.
Work off all that Christmas pudding by plunging up to your neck in glorious mud, all in aid of charity. Join the Maldon Mud Race to sprint, plod or even crawl across the River Blackwater's…
Cromwell's Bloody Banned Christmas
The year is 1647 and fanatical puritan henchmen wait in the York Dungeon to punish anyone celebrating the festive season, at Cromwell's Bloody Banned Christmas. Follow Jack the Ripper's…
Cromwell's Bloody Banned Christmas
The year is 1647 and fanatical puritan henchmen wait in the London Dungeon to punish anyone celebrating the festive season, at Cromwell's Bloody Banned Christmas. Follow Jack the Ripper's…
Allendale in Northumberland has an interesting way of seeing in the New Year. Men dress up, balance flaming whisky barrels filled with hot tar on their heads, then toss them onto a bonfire...
Every New Year at midnight, the Hogmanay celebrations in the town of Stonehaven centre around a large, fireball-swinging procession which marches through the town down to the harbour and then…
The New Year's Day Dip on Peel Beach has been raising money for charity by persuading the brave and the foolhardy to take a quick dip in the Irish Sea for more than 20 years. There can't be a…
Arturo Brachetti is a performance artist with a curious talent: he changes costumes with astonishing speed, creating legions of personalities in rapid succession. In Change, his new show at…
Christmas & New Year Ghost Tour
Scudamore's Punting Company's Christmas & New Year Ghost Tour combines a spine-chilling punting tour with a spooky guided walk through Cambridge. It starts between the Anchor pub on Silver…
The Scalloway Fire Festival is a torch-lit procession through the town, culminating in the burning of a Viking galley at sea. It is a festival which harks back to the ancient Viking practice…
Held on the old calendar's New Year, the annual Burning of the Clavie is probably the most impressive and dramatic fire festival in Scotland. It's also the one most likely to unnerve anyone…
The Lerwick Up Helly Aa is a magnificent fire festival, incorporating the burning of a Viking galley and a torchlit parade. Nearly 1000 people dressed as Vikings or in other fancy dress take…
Carnivorous lampshades and pole-dancing robots might sound like elements of a very disturbed person's dream, but Kinetica Art Fair at London's P3 displays exactly these sorts of weird exhibits…
The hurling of the silver ball, in St Ives, is a very old custom indeed. So old in fact, that nobody quite knows how and when it originated. It is held on Feast Monday every February.
The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race
The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race once again finds madcap teams of pancake-flippers running up and down Dray Walk in the Old Truman Brewery. The competitors tough it out for kudos, prestige…
