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Great idea - but it would be even better if May Day Bank Holiday was shifted a bit so that we still it as a day off. Problem is that there's also another day off in May - the Spring Bank Holiday on the 31st.
Jag | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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How about 4 July? We can celebrate freeing ourselves from our American cousins. (Sorry to all my friends in the States). July would be a great time for an extra day off, don't you think?
Gary Netherton | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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25th October.
1). Battle of Agincourt (1415).
2). Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)... I know we lost that one... but we want some balance don't we?
3). St.Crispin's Day....patron saint of cobblers (how apt).
4).Oh, my birthday too? Ooh I'd forgotten that 
NiC | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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Mr Picky strikes again! Your Prince Charles/14th November link confirms what I knew already: "The Prince was born ... on 14 November 1948".
dg writes: Oops, you're right (and it would have been an absolute scandal if Charles had been born a week before his parents' wedding)
My father (RIP) *was* born on 14 Nov 47, and he used to make a show of saluting the National Anthem that was played at 7am on Radio (4 for Charles' benefit?), and pretending it was for him 
But anyway, my nomination for a British Day: any day you want, one a year per person, to be taken as an extra day's leave. Flying the flag for British flexibility!
Wayne | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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Our antipodean cousins take a holiday for the Queen's birthday, so I don't see why we can't take one too, as well as one for British Day...Or is that being greedy?
Essexgirl | 16.01.06 - 10:47 a.m. | #
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America now "celebrates" Patriot Day on 11 September.
How terrible is that?
Very, that's how terrible.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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I have always argued for a public holiday to mark the anniversary of the Queen's Accession to the throne.
The fact that it is my birthday is entirely coincidental.
Alternatively, we could have a public holiday to mark the anniversary of the enfranchisement of women.
The fact that it is my birthday is entirely coincidental.
How about 6 February?
Gert | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 11:32 a.m. | #
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Not mine, but the best suggestion I've seen so far is 1st April...
pixeldiva | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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#2 2. Trafalgar was very important, DG - it gave us marine (and therefore world) supremacy for a considerable time, enabling the planet to be Anglicised, whether they liked it or not?
Mr.D. | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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For a long time, I've agitate to have another Bank Holiday between August and December, the fourth Friday in October is a good day to celebrate anything as long as it gives us a day off.
Pete | 16.01.06 - 12:59 p.m. | #
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What about 5th November?
mclm | 16.01.06 - 1:25 p.m. | #
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Let's wait 4 and a bit years and see which day ends up being the day that the one-eyed bean counter loses the general election. I'll certainly need a day off to nurse my hangover when that happens.
Michael | 16.01.06 - 1:48 p.m. | #
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Us Scots used to have the 2nd of January off, because we know how to do Hogmanay properly, but then we got a bit wimpy and just started taking all the English Bank Holidays instead of our own.
5th of November would be good except it could fall on a weekend and no day off.
What about the 17th of October - the date our Chancellor's beloved Raith beat Bayern Munich 1-0?
Stuart | Homepage | 16.01.06 - 2:19 p.m. | #
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I'll support 6th February as it was my Mum's bithday, just over 100 years ago.
pop artist | 16.01.06 - 10:58 p.m. | #
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How about celebrating a date which combines two significant British firsts with a restatement of good old British values? 6th May is the day the penny black stamp was launched in 1840, and in 1966 was the day that Brady and Hindley were jailed, so that should please the tabloids too, with their current anti-paedophile campaign. The same day in 1954 saw a Brit run the first sub-four minute mile. The fact that 6th May is also my birthday is entirely coincidental.
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Chig | Homepage | 17.01.06 - 1:50 a.m. | #
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6 May is also Tony Blair's birthday and the anniversary of the glorious third victory.
Gert | Homepage | 17.01.06 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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Not to get too "keep the red flag flying" but 1st May has an important role as a workers day - reminding people that ordinary working people acting together can change things politically for the better. Bush already rebranded it in the US - let's not go down that road too! How about celebrating the anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 1928 - when women joined men as voters on conditions of equality at last. Can't seem to google up the date though.
David Brake | Homepage | 17.01.06 - 3:21 p.m. | #
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Act of the Union Day? If, no, when Scotland regains its independence you'd have to start all over again!
Uroskin | Homepage | 18.01.06 - 6:14 a.m. | #
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