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Chris Philpotts Advertiser 25 Feb 11
Walsall Council is set to wave goodbye to its Bank Holiday Tuesdays, council leader Mike Bird revealed this week.
The council is the last authority in the region to lose its extra days off. Councillor Bird believes their removal was long overdue and said…
Business
Graeme Brown B'ham Post 24 Nov 10
Business leaders have greeted with dismay the extra bank holiday created by the royal wedding.
Birmingham’s Chamber of Commerce said the vast majority of its members feared the extra holiday on April 29 would hit their businesses at a time of continuing economic uncertainty…
News
Express & Star 13 Sep 10
More than 296,000 school days were sacrificed to term-time holidays in the Black Country and Staffordshire in a year.
Holiday firms were today criticised for charging “exorbitant” prices during the school holidays leading to parents booking breaks during term time. Deals advertised on a price comparison website today list the cost of a one-week trip to Tenerife from Monday, October 18, as £263 per person.
In Walsall 30,620 days were lost to holiday..
Comment
Jayne Howarth's Weblog 10 Sep 10
For years I have maintained that September 1 is the REAL New Year, the time when resolutions should be made. How many of us make solemn pledges to ourselves as the final bars of Olde Lange Syne fade into the ether, only to abandon them by mid January?
And January is such a depressing month to be making big changes: you are still coming down from the heady excitement of Christmas (avoiding all bills until February) and it feels so very, very flat. It’s dark, dank, gloomy. Usually wet or snowy. It is not the time to be planning dramatic weight loss.
So, September 1 it is for me.
Why? It’s probably something to do with…
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BrownhillsBob 30 Aug 10
August bank holiday weekend is bittersweet for me. Whilst other holiday Mondays in spring seem like markers, milestones toward a summer full of promise, warm days, green leaves and long rides, this one always seems to mark the closing of the season.
The nights are already drawing in, the fields have gone from the lush bright greens and golds of growth to the dusty raffia browns of stubble. The leaves start to age and turn, and the hedgerows, field margins and scrubs are loaded with a rich natural bounty of ripening fruits, seeds and nuts…
News
Sophie Cross B'ham Mail 28 Aug 10
DON’T despair – summer’s not over
That was the reassuring message from Birmingham weather experts after the Midlands endured more than a week of torrential rain.
Met Office forecaster Helen Chivers said the rest of the Bank Holiday weekend was going to be “really quite pleasant” in most places – with the prospect of even better weather to come next month.
She said things began to perk up yesterday. And the warmer weather was set to continue today, although this afternoon could bring more showers. Helen said: “Tomorrow and Monday are looking good, being dry with sunny spells”…
News
BBC News 27 Aug 10
Train passengers face disruption over the Bank Holiday weekend because of engineering works.
Virgin Trains will be running reduced services on Saturday from Crewe to London Euston, and on Sunday no trains will call at Stafford. On Bank Holiday Monday the route between Birmingham New Street and Stafford via Wolverhampton will be closed…
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B'ham Mail 27 Aug 10
Thousands of sun-starved Midlanders are jetting off in search of warmer weather for the last Summer Bank Holiday break of 2010.
Around 127,000 are expected to fly out from Birmingham International Airport between today and Monday, with the hottest destinations being Dubai and the Canary Islands.
Other popular choices are family visits to Amsterdam, Paris, Dublin and New York…
News
Express & Star 29 Jun 10
Bank Holiday Tuesdays face being axed from Walsall Council, it was revealed today. More than 8,000 council workers in Walsall are poised to have three extra holiday days taken away. Town hall chiefs are being threatened with industrial action after unveiling the plan.
The decision to scrap the ‘Bank Holiday Tuesdays’ is part of a shake-up of pay…