Article: THE MONDAY DEBATE: Should we abandon Bank Holidays?(Features)

Article: Are all these bank holidays making us ill? Easter ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... RAJ PERSAUD AT present we are in the middle of a season of bank holidays and all those extra days off sound wonderfully enticing ... attempted-suicide figures to decrease before and during bank holidays - but then to dramatically increase after the break. Psychologists ...

Article: Are all these bank holidays making us ill? Easter ...
Evening Standard - London;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ...AT present we are in the middle of a season of bank holidays and all those extra days off sound wonderfully enticing ... attempted-suicide figures to decrease before and during bank holidays - but then to dramatically increase after the break ...

Article: In multicultural Wales, is it right that bank ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  April 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Out of the eight bank holidays recognised in Wales ... Day, the two May bank holidays, and the summer bank holiday in August - are ... to celebrate. Bank holidays are man-made ... necessarily want a bank holiday on Ramadan or the ...

Article: Fury as rubbish left on streets; BANK HOLIDAYS ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 12, 2000 ;     513 words ... ... they had been trying to catch up after recent bank holidays. He said: "We have had a number of complaints ... Because Monday and Tuesday after Christmas were bank holidays and there was a bank holiday after New Year the wagons have had to catch ...

Dictionary definition: Bank Holidays
A Dictionary of Business and Management;      375 words ...Bank Holidays Public holidays ... Spring Bank Holiday (the last ... included. Bank Holidays have a similar ... due on a Bank Holiday are postponed ... day. When Bank Holidays fall on a ... becomes the Bank Holiday.

Article: Tam Cowan: Fat blokes in leotards pulling Vauxhall Vivas with ...
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... folks, welcome to yet another Bank Holiday Monday ... Just last week, a ... revealed British people want more Bank Holidays to keep us in line with our European ... that more Bank Holidays means more Bank Holiday television. Flat out on the couch ...

Article: Stanley McHale: Bank holidays are for wimps and ...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  March 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... like myself, bank holidays are a considerable ... employed, a bank holiday is about as useful ... they're called BANK holidays? Banks knock ... 10.30pm on a bank holiday. So forget drinking ... will be no more bank holidays. 'But it ...