It's nearly Halloween and that means it's time to dig out your pointed hat. But, one town is spending their spooky season attempting to clear the name of executed 'witches' from 1560 to 1680. Let's take a look

Think of witch trials and you often think of the hysteria of Salem in Massachusetts, US, where more than 200 men and women stood accused between February 1692 and May 1693. ‌

But witch trials were also rife in England, with around 1,000 held between 1560 and 1680. Now, one town is trying to clear the names of its executed ‘witches’. ‌

Here we take a look at what happened in Maidstone, Kent… ‌

‘Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble!’ When William Shakespeare wrote those lines for his play Macbeth, first performed in 1606, witchcraft was seen a

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