Mardi Gras News

TO dog-walkers and hikers it's one of the county's best-known beauty spots. But to worldwide audiences Cleeve Hill is fast becoming the thing of nightmares.

As far as this serious-minded Shops scout is concerned the only Mr Benn in town is the pipe-puffing, irascible old socialist.

Feb. 16, 2010. Mark that date on your calendar. It's important. That is the day the English call Shrove Tuesday.

Fat is where it's at on Tuesday, writes Matt Preston. SUMMER is coming and I promise that very soon we'll be skipping down lanes filled with stories of salads, delicious fruit cups and lists of the healthiest dishes I've eaten around the world.

The sun is up on Commercial Street, but very few people are moving around. Draining on a wire rack in the window of the Provincetown Portuguese Bakery are about 30 malassadas, or Portuguese doughnuts: sweet, crispy, sugary dollops of deep-fried dough with no hole.

LIKE pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and fireworks on November 5, it's tradition to visit Launde Abbey during the August Bank Holiday.

Competitors have been rolling cheeses around an obstacle course in Chester as an alternative to the traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake race.

The top lot is an illuminated manuscript of the city's historic Shrove Tuesday carnival, with 64 full page color illustrations of costumes and floats .