Number of rainy days (in brackets) on August
bank holidays over the last decade: 2007 (0), 2008 (3), 2009 (2), 2010 (2), 2011 (3), 2012 (2), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2015 (2), 2016 (1)
Planning alternative routes before you set off, allowing extra time and properly preparing your vehicle for travel, can all help you avoid
bank holiday traffic.
Also, can you imagine how much money is lost every
Bank Holiday because of offices being closed for the day, and all the sandwich shops and dry cleaners around the offices which have to close on those days because there are no customers.
She said: "Lidl has always wanted to have opening hours from seven to 10 on
Bank Holidays.
The official end of the month prior to the
bank holiday means that September's figures will be boosted by back-to-school purchases.
Councillor John Robinson, Mayor of Durham, will tour the market and enjoy the entertainment on
bank holiday Monday at midday - his final official engagement as the city's mayor.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS Some RBS branches won't take
bank holidayBut is it not time that those in power who make these decisions re-organised the calendar to move one of the early
bank holidays to late June or early July?
A few days before any major
bank holiday you can be sure to read about warnings of the impending doom.
The 2012 August
Bank Holiday has seen around 43 percent of the UK's population exploring more local destinations, says VisitEngland's
Bank Holiday Trip Tracker.
Any other
bank holiday they ask for volunteers and those who come in would receive double time, but this time they have said it is like any normal working day, you have to come in, although we would get a day in lieu.
KARACHI, July 31, 2011 (Frontier Star): State Bank of Pakistan has announced
Bank Holiday on 1st Ramazan-ul-Mubarak, 1432 A.