A skirt, a frying pan and most importantly a pancake. The Olney Pancake Race in Buckinghamshire dates back more than five centuries, but why did it start and who can take part? The run itself ...

Hundreds of people packed into Guildhall Yard, cheering as participants in the annual Inter-Livery Pancake Race ran around the ... place in the small town of Olney, England, which legend has ...

The competition was held on 1 March in Olney, Buckinghamshire - home to what is said to be the oldest annual pancake race in the world. The new championships aim to "widen the net and give ...

The pancake race is said to have been invented by a woman from Olney, Buckinghamshire in 1445. Every year the local women run the race – but this year Blue Peter's Barney gatecrashed it ...

The competition was held on 1 March in Olney, Buckinghamshire - home to what is said to be the oldest annual pancake race in the world. The new championships aim to "widen the net and give everyone ...