Herrin, Ill., a town long kippered in a bloody solution of mining feuds, bootleg wars, Klan activities, last week developed some new reactions. Two gangs, one run by a man named Carl Shelton ...

But the 1920s and 30s saw the herring business along the east coast ... Sarah Charlesworth, from Historic England in the North, said kippers were "an integral part of Craster's cultural identity".