Guy Fawkes Day News

Saturday was the most important public holiday in the United States, and quite rightly so.

I love a party but have to admit I have mixed feelings about the Fourth of July holiday.

Time was when going from San Ysidro, Calif., to Tijuana for a cheaper litre of Kahlua was so much simpler, too.

Primary schoolchildren in Lancashire are to be shown a police-produced film warning about the danger from terrorists, and urging them to report anyone with "extremist views" to the authorities.

Organisers of York's newest public fireworks display are reaching for the skies after confirming it will be returning to the city.

Since 2000, harpist and electronicist Rhodri Davies has evolved continuously. He has metamorphosed from an extraordinary harpist-equally comfortable playing classical music, contemporary compositions or freely improvising-into an exploratory and innovative musician who continually extends the range of his playing and the language of his instrument.

I live in Methuen, but am originally from the United Kingdom where, as you may know, we celebrate Guy Fawke's Night with bonfires and, of course, fireworks.

A jilted boyfriend who hurled a petrol bomb towards a house where three young children were sleeping has been locked up.

Protesters have gathered outside the Houses of Parliament to make their feelings known about the controversy over MPs' expenses claims.

'DEMOCRACY," said Winston Churchill, "is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried from time to time." Well, the Mother of Parliaments in London -- where Churchill experienced historic victories and defeats -- is testing his theory to the limits.

Extra-ordinary. Momentous. Historic. Shocking. All words that have been used to describe events over the past week or two in politics.

Voters have been treated like peasants by our so-called betters for long enough, as the MPs' expenses scandal illustrates.

UNEMPLOYMENT has fallen in North and East Yorkshire, latest figures revealed today.

OVER THE course of several weeks at the beginning of the year, we reproduced selections from a catalogue of sale, dating from the summer of 1935, which was produced for an auction of several parcels of land belonging to the Earl of Dudley.

A ROW has ignited in Robin Hood's Bay over the local scouts group's plans to hold a Guy Fawkes bonfire in the village.

Not for the first time, but more now than ever, I commend to you V For Vendetta, the 2005 film in which a superhero in a Guy Fawkes mask sets about doing to Parliament what his role model tantalisingly failed to achieve under James I. Slaughtered by most critics, the movie is hardly flawless in its totalitarian state allegorising, lacking the ...

's Houses of Parliament was foiled today's MPs are doing a fine demolition job it seems.

BONFIRE NIGHT, first play in a trilogy of works that focuses on the migration of Caribbean peoples to the UK in the 1940s and what has happened to that community since then.

The Obama administration says it won't look backward in the debate over harsh interrogations.

Last week, very quietly, was a pretty big one for music nerds, a diagnosably obsessive-compulsive and spectacularly dorkwaddish bunch of which I count myself a member, as evidenced by the untold gigs of Springsteen bootlegs - live, studio, past, present, some CD-quality and some sounding like they were recorded from the inside of a garbage can ...