Rivalries rekindled at Britain's black pudding throwing contest

Scores of cheering fans crowded into a street in the northern English town of Ramsbottom as the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships helped keep a centuries-old rivalry between the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire alive.The event sees competitors attempting to knock the largest number of Yorkshire puddings from a raised plinth, by using black puddings - a Lancashire delicacy - as projectiles.Black pudding is a kind of blood sausage popular in Britain, made from congealed pigs' blood, f