ASHBOURNE, England (AP) — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to ...

Rules are limited but “no murder” was an early stipulation for the game that dates back to at least the 1600s. Good players ...

One of the earliest rules was 'no murder' - and one of the most recent is 'the ball must not be carried in a motorised vehicle!' ...

The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is played every Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in Ashbourne, Derbyshire – and has been since at least the 1660s. Shrovetide ball games have been played in England ...

the event is a source of immense pride for the people of Ashbourne in Derbyshire's Peak District. Yet, such a unifying tradition is actually based upon splitting the town into two halves between ...

Lorries heading north will be banned from the centre of Ashbourne from Monday (March 10) for up to six months while the next phase of work to transform the town centre begins. The Ashbourne Reborn ...

The £15.2m Ashbourne Reborn project, by Derbyshire Dales District and Derbyshire County councils, aims to improve the pedestrian experience in the town with wider pavements and upgraded crossings.

ASHBOURNE, England — This ancient form of soccer has a rule forbidding players from murdering each other. Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to ...