Obby Oss News Today

The rhythms and rituals of rural life have seldom been conspicuous in British cinema. But in this feature from our August 2010 issue, Rob Young looks back to feature films of the 1960s and 70s, and to documentaries across the decades, and finds that traces of the ‘old, weird Britain’ can still be unearthed.

A collection focused on the place of people of colour in British folklore is abundant with meaning and feeling

Andrew Cox will report to the Government his concerns about events not being compelled to have an organiser and also the polices lack of powers to stop them.

Laura Smallwood, 34, died in hospital three days after she was struck in the back of the head by the wooden framed horse - known as an Obby Oss - an inquest heard.

Laura Smallwood (pictured) was knocked down by the Obby Oss, one of a pair used in one of the oldest festivals held at Padstow, north Cornwall, on May 1, 2019.

Today marks St Piran’s Day, the national day of Cornwall, and after the restrictions of the last couple of years it will be an opportunity for the…

The artist Ben Edge has spent years chronicling some of this sceptred isle’s oldest festivals. How did he get the locals to allow him in?