How To Use Bank holiday In A Sentence
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We had planned to spend the Bank Holiday weekend in Italy paying the next tranche of money and finalising the layout of sanitary ware in the bath room.
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We arrived home to the revelations about how disgusting York's public conveniences had been allowed to become over the Bank Holiday.
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And why is there no statue or Bank Holiday to the memory of this national hero or heroine?
Times, Sunday Times
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Indifferent, insolent, squally weather put a bit of a damper on the festive and cultural activities over the bank holiday weekend.
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If you are going away over the bank holiday and arranging travel insurance, don't forget to read all the health exclusions carefully.
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So yet again this coming bank holiday weekend is going to be a nightmare for a huge number of rail travellers.
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Bank holidays and holidays are unpaid, long hours are spent reskilling, and paperwork can be time-consuming.
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North Yorkshire's tourist routes were jammed with trippers and Bank Holiday weekend events attracted visitors in their thousands across the county.
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The shops are closed tomorrow because it is a bank holiday.
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This bank holiday weekend could be the perfect time to go showroom shopping and save yourself thousands of pounds on a new motor.
The Sun
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They have again forecast rain for the Bank Holiday. That figures!
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Along with the warm sunshine, the cruel headwinds of Bank Holiday Monday subsided to a light breeze.
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If only the woes of the world could be settled over a grand "barney" on the Brighton beachfront as they were on the August Bank Holiday of '64.
Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers
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August was always going to be difficult, up against hot weather and good trading a year before and containing the washout summer bank holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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For those who haven't had their fill of entertainment, it is worth noting that the next Bank Holiday weekend is only 25 days away.
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Weekenders trace their roots to the mods and rockers' bank holiday rave-ups on the south coast in the Sixties.
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Briefly pubbed with the team after work to celebrate the bank holiday, and made vague arrangements for lunch at Masala Zone on Wednesday to celebrate completing five years on PCW.
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We got up early and beat the Bank Holiday traffic to the western dales, seeking a quiet and very colourful walk on the land between Grassington and Malham.
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Millions of people are heading off by road, rail and air today for a great British Bank Holiday getaway - despite a gloomy weather forecast.
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He said officers should ‘crack down on lingerers’ and was told the council is trying to prevent staff taking a half day sick after weekends and bank holidays without being ill.
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Soon you will have something new to divert you on a wet Bank Holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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During last year's Bank Holiday period six people were killed on the roads.
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Rail works continuing until Bank Holiday Monday will mean Virgin cross country trains from Birmingham to north-east Scotland will be diverted from Leeds and Wakefield to Doncaster and Sheffield.
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The early Easter bank holiday wet weather failed to dampen the spirits of the seaside tourist trade.
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After a dull and wet bank holiday, I was looking forward to a pleasant evening in the theatre.
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They cyclostyled a few hundred copies, and released them on a bank holiday.
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On Bank Holiday Saturday, local orienteers competed in the Scottish Championships at Glen Truim.
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For retailers as a whole, the bank holiday was a disappointment, with visitor figures suggesting no real postelection recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Festival fever will hit Durrow this August Bank Holiday weekend when the annual carnival takes place.
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On Bank Holiday Monday, about 5.30 pm, a vehicle returning from Coney Island over the strand was immobilised in deep water leaving its four passengers clinging to the roof.
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It's a double Bank Holiday and, as you'd expect, there are plenty of special events happening in York's nightspots this weekend.
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But that remains an annual event, with the sixth one coming up this August bank holiday.
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Now police are warning anyone who used the machine over the Easter weekend, including the bank holiday Monday, to check their bank accounts in case they too have become victims of the scam.
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Easter is far more than a Bank Holiday or a pagan spring festival.
Times, Sunday Times
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Massive tailbacks and traffic jams were again expected to clog up Britain's roads today as families head back home after the great Bank Holiday exodus.
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The action will cause particular disruption to commuters returning to work on Tuesday after the bank holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Calls for more bank holidays always invite comparisons - usually with the Continent.
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BRITAIN was battered by storms yesterday as forecasters warned of a bank holiday washout.
The Sun
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Thousands of visitors poured into York over the Golden Jubilee Bank Holiday - bringing cheer to businesses coping with gloomy figures.
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BRITAIN was battered by storms yesterday as forecasters warned of a bank holiday washout.
The Sun
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The city's 120 binmen withdrew their goodwill in May, which included not working two bank holidays, in protest at council plans to privatise the service.
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It was a sweltering spring bank holiday, and he had not had long to prepare for such an auspicious moment.
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INSTEAD of moving bank holidays, just give us extra ones in the autumn and winter.
The Sun
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Hilary also said that their garden fête on the June Bank Holiday weekend this year was a bigger success than ever and raised £3,700 for Dove House.
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Soon you will have something new to divert you on a wet Bank Holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a lighter note I am looking forward to another bank holiday - we will be touring the salvage yards of the northeast this weekend looking for antique corbels, floorboards, doors, fireplaces, architraves, door handles etc.
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No pay was given for Bank Holidays, with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income.
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By the mid-60s two distinct clans clashed on bank holidays: the clean-cut mods in their fish-tail parkas, who listened to R 'n' B and the Who on their scooters and the rougher rockers on their motorbikes.
Is music tribalism dead?
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The timing was excellent as well as it coincided with me finishing studying for the day (no really) and thus I got to eat yakitori and drink beer in the sunshine on a Bank Holiday Monday afternoon.
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On specially designated weekends and bank holidays the SY Carolla, the oldest sea-going steam yacht, visits the museum.
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But neither of these Bank Holiday affairs fitted the weekday norm.
Times, Sunday Times
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It got off to an uncertain start this year with Bristol's Essential Festival, a three-day May bank holiday jolly.
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Bank holidays were prime time for pink sugar legs and false teeth and she couldn't herself get away.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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The calls come amid fears of a repeat of the violence which marred last year's bank holiday event when a mob went on the rampage, attacking police and burning buildings.
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The holiday club runs from 8am to 6pm every weekday during school holidays, except Bank Holidays and Christmas.
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Nick Wood is organising two teams of ten to ride the machine in relays to Christchurch over the August bank holiday weekend.
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The commonly-held belief is that bank holiday weekends are just an excuse to laze around, be generally aimless and not do very much at all.
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This inevitably means weekends and bank holidays, when passenger numbers can be down by up to 50 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Medieval games, fire-eaters, stalls and music will greet visitors to Chipping Norton on May Bank Holiday Monday, when the town celebrates the 800th anniversary of its ancient fair charter.
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These photos will be taken over the Whit Bank Holiday Weekend, which is from Friday, June 3 to Monday, June 6.
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Statutory Bank Holidays belong to the same tradition as the old northern wakes weeks.
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Radio 2 now specialises in stonking bank holiday lineups.
The Amazing Mavis Staples | Radio review
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Nevertheless, to the mods and the rockers who travelled down from London on weekends and bank holidays, Brighton must have seemed like the most exotic of destinations, a world away from the smoggy capital.
Brighton: the grit and the glamour
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The measures would also see holiday entitlements reduced to just 20 days a year, inclusive of Bank Holidays, and the loss of entitlement to sick pay.
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Workers can bank holidays in advance so they get paid while they are away.
Times, Sunday Times
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It has become an Easter bank holiday tradition to see an angry minister being jeered and heckled by teachers who seem to enjoy taking a break from being the ones at the front of the class.
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Workers can bank holidays in advance so they get paid while they are away.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town is choked with traffic daily and the situation on the Northern bank holiday weekend really put the tin hat on things.
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For the Assumption Day (Bank Holiday and feast of Obligation in France), a solemn mass was celebrated by an Assumptionist assisted by a deacon and subdeacon at 11: 00 in the Upper Basilica.
Lourdes : Pèlerinage National
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But that remains an annual event, with the sixth one coming up this August bank holiday.
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Sand castle competitions and beachwear don't often make an appearance in town centres, but they were all the rage over the bank holiday weekend.
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It was a hazy, lazy summer's day in most parts of the Yorkshire region yesterday - and today's bank holiday weather looks set to be similar.
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It wouldn't have been so bad if Monday hadn't been a bank holiday and Tuesday been a whole day spent in the boardroom deliberating the winners of this year's Awards.
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That is 5,000 more than they have had over previous bank holidays and the general improvement in the weather was named as the major contributor in getting people out of their homes.
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The Grecians were held to a goal-less draw by visiting Forest Green in front of a bumper Bank Holiday crowd just shy of 5,000.
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With just over a week left of the meteorological summer and the bank holiday weekend approaching, the unsettled conditions are likely to continue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stock up on creative crafts for rainy bank holidays.
Times, Sunday Times
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The revels originated years ago as a bank holiday festival for men who worked in the local quarries.
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The raw experiences of our visits were supplemented with painful, until-then-suppressed memories from childhood of being stuck in bank holiday traffic for hours with the distant promise of seeing half-cut morris men stagger about a village fete.
Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out
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I believe we will have a bill before [ US bank holiday ] Thanksgiving.
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Bank holiday weekend activities?
Times, Sunday Times
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The estimated cost of lost productivity on a normal bank holiday in Britain, which, under the orders of Prime Minister David Cameron, the wedding day has become.
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Her plans for the bank holiday weekend included a possible trip to the seaside.
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Rail works continuing until Bank Holiday Monday will mean Virgin cross country trains from Birmingham to north-east Scotland will be diverted from Leeds and Wakefield to Doncaster and Sheffield.
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Ten to one it will rain on the Bank Holiday.
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It's a positive trend locally and obviously it's one we hope will be repeated over Bank Holiday weekends hereafter.
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The Durrow tri-centenary celebrations continued with a bumper bank holiday weekend of events.
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The bank holiday weekend looks unsettled, with the driest and sunniest conditions in the south.
Times, Sunday Times
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And police resources could be further stretched if there is a repeat of last year's illegal rave at Marloes on the August Bank Holiday weekend.
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The Academy succeeded in forestalling labor unrest for five years, but when the studio executives used the occasion of Roosevelt's bank holiday in 1933 to cut screenwriters 'salaries (though not their own), the writers rebelled.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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August was always going to be difficult, up against hot weather and good trading a year before and containing the washout summer bank holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon you will have something new to divert you on a wet Bank Holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bank holidays are a real menace for messing up the meat trade and the May weekend has been no exception.
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In fact, far from more bank holidays, what we need is fewer - at least in the traditional fixed form.
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While Bank Holidays were traditionally a time when people looked to get on with home improvements, a study indicates that people would rather employ someone else to do the work.
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Fishing for chub and barbel on London's river Wandle may have been the perfect way to pass a gloomy bank holiday weekend, while fans of salmon could have headed to the Dee and the Taff in Wales, which once ran black with coal.
Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
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Weekenders trace their roots to the mods and rockers' bank holiday rave-ups on the south coast in the Sixties.
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Being the very height of its summer holidays as well as carnival time, it produces a wild and untamed version of an August bank holiday but in the middle of March.
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Sometimes an empty Sunday or a bank holiday weekend requires something more than a stomp around your local park.
Times, Sunday Times
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And forget about the bank holiday tomorrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accident last night was one of four serious collisions in North Yorkshire over the Bank Holiday weekend, which left three motorcyclists dead and a pillion passenger seriously injured.
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In bright sunshine, thousands of churchgoers from parishes across Manchester and Salford mingled with Bank Holiday crowds to enjoy a tradition dating back two centuries.
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We were a group of Christians, about twenty to thirty in number, who had come together for the bank holiday weekend to witness to Jesus Christ.
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As well as stalls, sideshows and refreshments the club is planning a Grand Car Boot Sale to draw in the crowds at the bank holiday Monday event.
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Easter monday is a bank holiday.
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The incident came just four months after a computer glitch stopped salaries being paid ahead of the August bank holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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At about 2pm on Bank Holiday Monday local residents saw several small groups of youths shooting air rifles in an area where young children play and people walk their dogs.
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Sunday will be a mixture of sunny spells and downfalls of rain and Bank Holiday Monday will continue much like Sunday, with a slight breeze.
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A campaign to get more bank holidays is gaining a head of steam.
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It's taken me nearly thirty-two years, but I think that I have finally come to truly appreciate the peculiarly British (minus Scottish) institution that is the Bank Holiday.
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Perfect frankness is the only possible safety for the people of our country and they realize that, and if you will remember when Mr. Roosevelt explained the reasons for closing down the banks and for keeping the bank holiday going for several days, he never promised to the people that all of them were going to get their money out of all the banks that had been closed.
The United States Faces the Future
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A violent episode from York's past will be brought back to life this Bank Holiday when the Civil War siege of the city is re-enacted.
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Lifeboatmen and coastguards in Essex have been kept busy over the Easter bank holiday.
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They followed up the raid by staking out the area over the bank holiday weekend to question people visiting the house.
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On a day trip to Dublin today, and off to Prague tomorrow morning for the bank holiday.
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The August bank holiday weekend will see Durrow host its annual carnival.
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Ashcroft's injury apart, the team came through unscathed from the two Bank Holiday matches.
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The Library is open on Church Holidays and closes Saturdays of Bank Holiday weekends.
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Will people want to honour her, as they did then, or will the extended bank holiday designated for this purpose simply pass off as a pleasant break?
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young cyclists mounted their bikes for the British Heart Foundation Junior Charity Bike Ride on Monday, despite the typical Bank Holiday wind and rain.
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Neill appears to have been particularly riled by Pete Edwards, leader of Labour-run Exeter council, who told the BBC he did not think it necessary to ask binmen to work bank holidays during the Christmas period.
Councils accused of complacency as rubbish left to pile up
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A number of ladies are walking for charity in the Dublin ladies mini marathon on bank holiday Monday, June 6.
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It is too early to talk with confidence about the weather for the bank holiday and half-term but there are signs that things will be more settled.
Times, Sunday Times
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The incident came just four months after a computer glitch stopped salaries being paid ahead of the August bank holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The West Sligo junior championship divisional final will be decided on Bank Holiday Monday.
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Stock up on creative crafts for rainy bank holidays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today is Whit Monday and a bank holiday and, as I said I would, I am taking my little cousin to see Finding Nemo.
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They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
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It's Spring Bank Holiday, so avid campers, caravanners and motorhome owners will be packing their tents, hitching up their caravans or fuelling up their motorhomes for a long weekend wherever they decide to pitch, unhitch or park.
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Soon you will have something new to divert you on a wet Bank Holiday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Treasurer Helen Smith has been working steadily on a sponsored slim in preparation for a daring wing walk at Elvington Airfield on August Bank Holiday weekend.
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Those planning to go to Blackpool or North Wales for the bank holiday are most likely to need their macs and umbrellas with the coast and hills favourites for a shower.
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The Queen began her Golden Jubilee bank holiday celebrations with a star-studded Prom at Buckingham Palace on Saturday night.
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Sometimes an empty Sunday or a bank holiday weekend requires something more than a stomp around your local park.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apparently on Bank Holidays, the more secluded parts would be knee-deep in shagging Brummies.
Pasty pirate
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As the tourism industry seeks to revive its fortunes over the Bank Holiday weekend, the local economy was due to get a much-needed boost today from a high-powered overseas delegation.
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However, the UK's unusual bank holiday luck this year seems certain to run out over the weekend, with cool and showery weather forecast until well into next week.
Ash cloud: 2m will take to skies in holiday getaway
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Club players have a preference for Bank Holiday weekends to be kept free of fixtures thus enabling them to take a weekend off with family or friends.
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If the contract stipulates eight bank holidays can be taken as paid leave in addition to holidays, June 3 will not count.
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We don't travel on bank holiday weekends - I just can't see the pleasure in it.
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Councillors are being recommended to approve a pilot scheme to operate at weekends and bank holidays from June to September.
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Another condition was that the spring break should be agreed - either to be around the moveable Easter bank holiday, or separate and at a fixed point in the calendar, but not varying around the country.
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And then, in the gathering heat, we returned over country roads, avoiding the long streams of vehicles coming in for the Bank Holiday weekend.
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Party at the Palace, the rock and pop concert, will take place two days later on Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday 3 June in the same setting as the classical event.
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Chris Evans is to present two shows for BBC Radio 2 over the Easter bank holiday.
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The great Bank Holiday getaway started last night with millions caught up in chaos on the road and rail networks.
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Obscene words were scratched into the bodywork of the vehicles and other damage was caused over the bank holiday weekend.
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After listening to a five-minute speech outside County Hall - empty of staff for the bank holiday - they melted away as peacefully as they had come.
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Next week it will be bank holiday and we shall be selling as normal but starting cattle half an hour later to dovetail with York.
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I believe we will have a bill before [ US bank holiday ] Thanksgiving.
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For example, you might close a sales application on Thanksgiving and Christmas in the USA and close it for bank holidays in Great Britain.
