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The Spring Bank Holiday was moved from 27 May to 4 June to create a four-day weekend. Friday 29 April 2011 was a special bank holiday to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. In 2012, there was a special holiday on Tuesday 5 June to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Therefore, to create a four-day weekend ...
Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting is used) after Easter Day. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks , as described in the Acts of the ...
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global 's UK and Australia division. It was launched in 1997 to provide a fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom.
After a soggy and unsettled beginning to the week across parts of England and Wales, the UK is poised for an extended warm spell towards the end of this week and into the weekend.. Temperatures ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The governing Conservative Party , led by the prime minister , Rishi Sunak , was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Keir Starmer .
1871. The August Bank Holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, part of the statutory bank holiday provision. Originally, the holiday was held on the first Monday of August across the country, but was changed in the late 1960s to the last Monday in August for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It remains the first Monday for Scotland.
A. Anniversary Days Observance Act 1859. Apple Day. Armed Forces Day (United Kingdom) August Bank Holiday.
It had been a bank holiday since 1978, is one of 8 public holidays, and 28 days of total holiday every UK worker has under the Working Time Directive. The most concrete measure of the WTR 1998 is, following basic rights in international law, [3] mandating a minimum period of 28 days, or four full weeks, in paid holidays for all workers each ...