The World Conker Championships has been a fixture on the calendar since 1965. It was held at Ashton, near Oundle, for 45 ...

Competitors at the UK-based World Conker Championships were subject to "airport-style" security after last year's event was ...

Players from across the globe are heading to Northamptonshire in a bid to take home the coveted title during the event's 60th ...

Men's winner Matt Cross, from Bourne, Lincolnshire, was crowned the overall World Conker Champion after beating women's ...

In schools children would resort to many a ruse to win (not least baking their conkers). At last year’s championships a fake steel conker was found in the octogenarian winner’s pocket, generating a ...

A royal delivery from Windsor Castle helped the World Conker Championships go ahead as planned on Sunday after an unusually ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton rejected an offer for Prince Louis to make an official appearance. Keep reading to see ...

This household has been awash with sports on the TV recently. If it isn’t curling, it’s baseball, and if it isn’t baseball, ...

Some 256 people from nine different countries, including Japan, entered this year’s competition, which was held in ...

The spirit of community champion George Benham will soar at the weekend as the beloved 'George Benham Memorial Conker Bash' makes its jubilant return to the Baffins Pond Association (BPA). Families ...

Being immersed in nature is well known to boost mental and physical health and the seasonal colours of autumn offer even more reason to explore the great outdoors. As previously reported, the North ...

Prince Louis has taken a liking to conkers. That's why the royal has been offered an honorary patronage of the World Conker Championships.