The blue oss costume is one of two paraded around the streets of Padstow each May Day A woman who died after a festival was struck by a traditional costume, an Obby Oss, in a May Day parade, a coroner ...

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Rick Stein has been accused of "colonising" Padstow, Cornwall, with 13 businesses established over 50 years, including restaurants, a deli, cookery school and hotel. Critics say he's turned the town ...

A visitor has controversially branded the much-loved Cornish seaside town of Padstow as "a cult", comparing other holidaymakers to "brainless sheep". Despite being celebrated in tourist brochures as a ...