Imagine having rotten fruit, eggs and excrement thrown at you in the middle of Derby Market Place for all to see. Well, this used to be a regular occurrence and was great sport for local people.

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Erin Merhar is a creative entrepreneur and food stylist with over a decade of experience developing recipes for cookbooks, editorial outlets, and leading consumer brands. Most recently, she was the ...

A gruesome torture device used as a brutal punishment for gossiping has gone on display in Leeds City Museum. The scold's bridle was used in English towns and cities as early as 1574. When in use, the ...

He received six lashes with a cane at the Masjid Al-Muktafi Billah Shah mosque in state capital Kuala Terengganu following Friday prayers, marking the first public punishment of its kind in modern-day ...

You only need two things to pull off this trick. Want to impress people at a dinner party? Pull out a Mason jar and some heavy cream. My mom taught me when I was a child that these are the only two ...

Great Britain equestrian athlete Charlotte Dujardin has been handed a one-year ban following an International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigation into a video of the three-time ...