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

Competitors travelled from across the globe to Northamptonshire in England to compete in an extremely autumnal event ...

Kate Middleton has spoken of her youngest son's enthusiasm for collecting conkers, which are horse chestnut seeds. The World ...

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 ...

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

LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Britain's hot and dry summer has put this year's World Conker Championships in jeopardy with a series of heatwaves leading to smaller than normal conkers, organisers say.

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

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