Flibbertigibbet means "fly by the gibbet" - the scaffold where the bodies of executed criminals were left to rot. No doubt these attracted crows and other carrion feeders. Presumably the inferred ...

ON a long and lonely lane amid the wilds of Northumbria, there swings an empty gibbet, its macabre arm visible for quite some distance. As the Object of the Week in last Saturday's paper told ...

The Market Harborough Historical Society is pleased to welcome Professor Elizabeth Hurren as their May Speaker on the subject ...

In the vicinity of Steng Cross, near to the roadside is the eerie site of a gibbet or ‘stob’. Known as Winter’s Gibbet - today's Object of the Week. It was from here that the body of a ...

Milton Keynes has been named one of the worst places to live in the UK numerous times, while Cambridge has been named one of ...

On a dark and stormy night, the rider found himself face-to-eyeless face with the swinging, rotting corpse of a murderer on a heath near Swaffham. As the wind howled, the horse was thrown off ...

A female office worker stands up for revenge after being bullied and raped, and kills and kills and kills in this revenge thriller.

In a dark, dark wood, there’s a dark, dark path and on the dark, dark path there’s the remains of a gibbet used to hang those with dark, dark hearts. At Potsford Wood, just west of Wickham ...

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As sales pitches go, the title of this recent Sundance favourite is far from a winner: one ticket for an hour and a half of ...

Officers from West Yorkshire Police's Roads Policing Unit (RPU) spotted the multicoloured vehicle on Gibbet Street, in Halifax, this afternoon. It was a GT sports car, with a black base colour ...

As the wind howled, the horse was thrown off course and into the hanging gibbet on the heath – an unearthly scream ripped through the air and something fell from the cage and on to the rider…a ...