A town's Christmas lights have been cancelled over health and safety, following a row between a council and volunteers. Windermere and Bowness Town Council in Cumbria took over the role of ...

A Derbyshire town could lose its annual Christmas lights switch-on when the local council is scrapped and merged into a new authority, councillors fear. At a South Derbyshire District Council ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880 ... We tend to think of Christmas-season traditions as ancient, but most of them are rather recent, born in the 19th century. “A Visit From St ...