Clifftop homes and a town's businesses are set to be better protected following the approval of a £20m project to safeguard the coastline of a Devon resort. The coastal defence scheme at Sidmouth ...

The Freemasons are a 400-year-old secret society that was born in Scotland. Getty Images For centuries, the secrets of the Freemasons were known only to members.

The Freemasons say they are simply a fraternity that aims to make good men better and to support each other.Because they are essentially secret, however, groups such as the Freemasons can stir all ...

THE Freemasons have long been seen as a shadowy organisation — complete with secret handshakes and ancient rituals. Few can describe who they are and what they actually do, but what little we do ...

Our curiosity about the Freemasons and their ilk gives way to conspiracy theories. But if secret societies are as benign as they say, then why the secret? David Barnett looks through the smoke and ...

Female Freemasons have been gathering for more than 100 years - conducting initiations, ceremonies and rituals like their male counterparts.

One Sidmouth resident has lost 20m (65ft) of garden in 20 years Cliff-top houses are losing a metre of their garden every year to erosion by the sea, a resident says. A row of 12 houses perched on ...

Sidmouth's last nightclub is making a grand return, but for just one night only as revellers are invited to come back and reminisce.

In Fox Nation's latest special, "Freemasons: A Society of Secrets," Tom Shillue speaks with members about conspiracy theories linked to the organization.

Mayor Eric Adams and city Police Commissioner Edward Caban were inducted Master Masons in a secret ceremony at Gracie Mansion Saturday that was left off his public schedule.

Freemasons are a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.

'The Imperial Chancellor and the Freemasons,' which is equivalent to a formal declaration of war on the part of the Freemasons against Prince Bismarck. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...