A person dressed as a Stormtrooper participated at the World Conkers Championships Photo: Nigel Hume With thick fog rolling in across the fields, like the opening scene of Macbeth, it felt like a good ...

A royal delivery from Windsor Castle helped the World Conker Championships go ahead as planned on Sunday after an unusually dry and warm summer had put the event at risk. When Britain's horse chestnut ...

If cricketers’ leather on willow is the most English of sounds, there was a time in school playgrounds when conker smacking against conker came close. On October 12th some 250 competitors gathered in ...

Competitors at the World Conker Championships were subject to “airport-style” security after last year’s tournament was plagued by controversy surrounding a steel conker and cheating accusations. Some ...

Some 256 people from nine different countries, including Japan, entered this year’s competition, which was held in Peterborough on Sunday. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you ...

Mags Blake and Matt Cross have officially been crowned as this year’s winners. They both look delighted sat on their respective thrones. Fancy being part of the fun? The event will be back again in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay-backed Conker Pictures has acquired rights to the debut novel from Eloise Rodger, Death’s a Bitch. Following what was called “an incredibly competitive international process,” Kim ...

Organisers of the World Conker Championships have raised fears they could be forced to cancel the competition due to this summer’s extreme weather. For decades, hundreds of conker players have ...

Tiny houses and alternative housing might be all the rage these days, but here's one tiny house that has more Instagrammable potential than the lot put together. This is the Conker Pod, a prefab ...

There aren’t many world champions who didn’t know their sport existed a year before winning the title. But then, conkers isn’t like many other sports. A traditional children’s game in Great Britain ...

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The World Conker Championships has dismissed complaints of cheating against this year's men's champion David Jakins following an investigation, a statement issued on Monday ...