The soaring cost of granting extra bank holidays appears to be a decisive factor. When Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee delivered a four-day celebration in 2022, it reportedly carried a ...

If you strategically book your annual leave around bank holidays, you can maximise your time off. Here are the bank holidays ...

THE verdict on the proposed 4–day weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end has been revealed. It was speculated that Brits could see May 9 and 12 wiped free to allow ...

With the last of the Christmas leftovers being eaten and New Year's Day just around the corner, many people will be looking forward to the next bank holidays in 2025. Next year will mark the ...

The UK may get an additional Bank Holiday in ... honour those who served in the Second World War. There was a bank holiday in 2022 for the Platinum Jubilee, followed by another in 2023 for King ...

There are a total of eight bank holidays each year in England and Wales, with some exceptions for special circumstances. Scotland has nine, and Northern Ireland has ten. In 2022, the UK had two ...

In May 2020, communities across the UK came out to mark the 75th ... And in June 2022, Brits enjoyed a bumper series of bank holiday celebrations as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee ...

In special circumstances extra bank holidays can be added in - in 2022 there were two extra bank ... Paid annual leave for all full-time workers in the UK is a legal entitlement but the amount ...

The bank holiday was proposed to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two, giving most people a day off work ...

Bank holidays in the UK first became a thing in 1871 to give ... and Platinum Jubilees in 2002, 2012, and 2022 respectively.