WITH Valentine’s Day out of the way, revellers have already set their sights on the next big celebration – Pancake Day.

It holds an important place in the Christian calendar, and its name comes from the word ‘shrive’, which means ... some parishes even rang a church bell at noon to signal it was time to start ...

In many Protestant and Roman Catholic Christian churches, a popular Shrove Tuesday ritual is the ringing of the church bells (on this day, known as the Shriving Bell) "to call the ... Tuesday" comes ...