Article: Fun Fair rolls up...

Article: The horrors of Watford Gap, recounted in the ballad of the ...
The Independent - London;  May 25, 1998 ;     697 words ... ... lights and sounding his horn? It is the Bank Holiday driver! Up he got at unearthly hour ... stale and his mouth is sour, On this Bank Holiday Monday. Heading towards the distant ... before ten!" is the boast, Of the Bank Holiday driver. But ten o'clock comes and ...

Article: New Bank holiday mooted - but don't start ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  July 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to consider the creation of a new Bank holiday will have set pulses racing across Wales. The vision of a Bank holiday on St David's Day unites Labour ... Government would consider creating a new Bank holiday while not moving forward with Welsh ...

Article: Give the family a Bank Holiday treat.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Herefordshire (01568 797777) Today and Bank Holiday Monday, 11am-6pm, adults [pound ... Fareham, Hants (01329 233734) today and Bank Holiday Monday, 10am-5pm. Free entry. THE ... St, Glastonbury (01458 831197). Bank Holiday Monday 11am-5pm, adults [pound ...

Article: Keeping traffic moving over the bank holiday; ...
M2 Presswire;  August 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Government: Keeping traffic moving over the bank holiday; Highways Agency helps drivers avoid ... strategic network. * Since the last bank holiday at the end of May, the Highways Agency ... with around 5,000 incidents over the bank holiday weekend. * Drivers will benefit from ...

Article: How to Minimise Bank Holiday Bumps and Bruises.
M2 Presswire;  August 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 2008-Claims Direct: How to Minimise Bank Holiday Bumps and Bruises(C)1994-2008 ... trampolines and barbeques. With the August bank holiday almost upon us, families up and down ... s children in their gardens over the bank holiday, and yet two thirds admitted they will ...

Article: Why did FDR's Bank Holiday succeed?
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... benefit of hindsight, the nationwide Bank Holiday in March 1933 ended the bank runs that ... Contemporary observers consider the Bank Holiday and the Fireside Chat a one-two punch ... 491) dismiss the importance of the Bank Holiday: "The value of stocks ... rose sharply ...

Article: Why DO we go Bank Holiday bonkers?; As more cars ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  August 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... one of the hallowed features of the Bank Holiday. They are now as much a part of our ... M11 at Junction 8 near Stansted on a Bank Holiday Monday. With more than 24 million cars ... year, I have grown heartily sick of Bank Holiday mayhem. Last year, on one of the May ...