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May is the best time of year right I
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mean endless 4 days in a row not 5 days
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in a row we all love a bank holiday we
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love a bank holiday last year there were
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rumors that there was going to be
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another bank holiday this year bringing
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the total to nine nine extra days off
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who doesn't love a bank holiday I was
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excited it was supposed to be to
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commemorate the end of World War II to
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earmark the 80th anniversary of D-Day we
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were going to get another day off
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brilliant there were rumors it was going
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to be around May to actually hit the
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exact date when World War II ended
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people were getting excited I was
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getting excited I wanted more time I
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wanted another day 25 days off a year it
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just isn't enough so I was getting
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planning and then oh number 10 just came
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out and ruined everyone's day a little
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bit saying there's no extra bank holiday
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there's none it's not happening so what
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actually happened here honestly no one's
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sure it was all a rumor that sort of
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appeared online and when good news
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spreads people just like to believe it's
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true rather than actually having any
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knowledge of it being true so just sort
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of word spread people got excited I
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started making plans everyone started
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making plans we all got excited but yeah
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basically this bang day is just not
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happening this going to be eight bank
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holidays as usual this year and you know
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may is always the best time for bank
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holidays the summer's coming in we've
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got two back to back it's just a
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beautiful time to be getting ready for
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the summer and just relaxing into
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shorter weeks but yeah sadly this this
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new bank holiday isn't something that's
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going to be happening okay it's not just
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me that's like annoyed about this whole
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like lack of extra bank holiday
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situation Jeff Roberts is a 99y old
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veteran who was captured in the Airborne
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assault on arnh her in 1944 I'm not sure
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what that means but you know he was
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there he's still go and he told the
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express you know maybe an extra bank
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holiday will help remind people about
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what's happened in the past I think it's
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very important in these current times we
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remember those that gave their lives for
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our freedom and peace yeah go Jeff I'm
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I'm on team Jeff I don't know about you
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okay in case you needed a reminder of
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the bank holidays you've obviously we've
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had New Year's Day there's good Friday
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and then there's Easter Monday they're
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both in April in May you've got two more
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um you've got the Spring Bank holiday
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and the summer bank holiday they're both
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in May and then you got one at the
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August bank holiday weekend and then
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there's that massive stretch right
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through to Christmas again when you've
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got Christmas Day boxing day and then
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through to new's day again so it turned
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out the rumors were false there's no
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bank holiday number 10 over our parades
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here's what they said the 80th
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anniversaries of v and VG day what's VG
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day will be moments of huge significance
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for our country where we will come
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together to honor the memory of those
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who serves the Legacy they left behind
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and what we owed them we are committed
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to commemorating these nationally
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appropriately that's a bit of a loaded
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word isn't it appropriately which is why
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we have announced more than 10 million
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to ear Mark events for celebrating these
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plans do not include an additional bank
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holiday but we look to use the existing
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early May bank holiday for commemorative
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events I mean what do they mean
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appropriately I think appropriate would
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have been another bank holiday what do
