Every Shrove Tuesday, the market town of Atherstone in Warwickshire becomes the stage for one of England’s oldest and most ...

The 826th edition of the Atherstone Ball Game took place on February 17, 2026, and if you’ve never seen it before, imagine a rugby scrum mixed with a bar fight, dropped in the middle of a narrow road ...

Explore the Atherstone Ball Game, a centuries-old tradition in Warwickshire, known as England's most brutal form of football.

Today is the biggest day in the town's annual calendar ...

Dotted around London are signs, thousands of them — and there is no mistaking the message, each word often starting with a capital letter as if to emphasise the point: No Ball Games. Are the messages ...