Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Lewes for one of the country's biggest Bonfire Night events. Local roads have been closed and rail services suspended, with visitors being asked to avoid ...

Nigel Farage has spoken about being burned in effigy at Lewes Bonfire Night. The politician was targeted during the 2024 celebrations in Lewes, often dubbed the bonfire capital of the world.

Thousands travel far and wide every year to witness Lewes’s unparalleled Bonfire Night celebrations that have been a part of the town’s history for centuries. Debate still surrounds the origins of the ...

If you took a knock to the head and woke up in Lewes on this particular day of the year, you would be forgiven for thinking that you had been transported to some strange, cultish civilisation on the ...

Effigies of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt were set ablaze Saturday as part of the East Sussex town of Lewes’ infamous Bonfire Night commemorations. Thousands gathered to ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). ‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’, goes the old nursery rhyme, ‘gunpowder, treason and plot.’ It’s a memorably succinct ...

Britain celebrates the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 by letting off fireworks and lighting bonfires with an effigy of the Gunpowder Plot leader Guy Fawkes on top during ...

An effigy of Boris Johnson urinating on newspapers was burned during the Lewes bonfire celebrations An effigy of Boris Johnson urinating on newspapers has been torched at this year's annual Lewes ...