Crowds of between 15,000 and 20,000 are expected at a spectacular event where people carry flaming tar barrels above their heads through a Devon town. The Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels is on Wednesday, ...

A clean up was under way on Thursday, the morning after this year's edition of an event where people run through the streets carrying flaming barrels of tar. The Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels attracted ...

To some people, fully grown men sprinting through packed streets with huge, flaming wooden barrels on their backs might seem like lunacy. To the people of Devon though, the running of the Ottery St ...

A rural town hosts one of the most "exhilarating" annual events in the country where local people run through crowd-lined streets with flaming barrels above their heads. Organisers said "not much can ...