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In the United Kingdom, public holidays are days on which most businesses and non-essential services are closed. Many retail businesses (especially the larger ones) do open on some of the public holidays. There are restrictions on trading on Sundays, Easter and Christmas Day in England and Wales and on New Year's Day and Christmas Day in Scotland.
It wasn't until 1957 that the event was televised. Songs of Praise (1961 – present) – Every year songs of Praise celebrates advent Sunday's leading up to Christmas. Text Santa (2011-2015) Star Over Bethlehem (1977, 1979, 1981) - A live satellite transmission that featured Christmas music from around the world.
16 March – Two British soldiers from Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, later named as Corporals Graeme Stiff and Dean John, are killed in an explosion in Southern Afghanistan. The deaths take the total number of British forces to die in the Afghan conflict to 152. [ 1] 18 March.
In several cases, Easter falls onto the latest possible, 17th Sunday of the year. The first time that Easter will fall on April 24 in a leap year will be in 4292 which is also the 115th day of the year. The second latest date for Easter, April 24 or day 114, occurred in 2011. The last time this occurred before was in 1859 and it will not happen ...
2007–08. 2008–09. 2009–10. 2010–11. 2011–12. 2012–13. The 2009–10 Canadian network television schedule indicates the fall prime time schedules for Canada 's major English and French broadcast networks. For schedule changes after the fall launch, please consult each network's individual article. Note: TQS rebrands as the V Network.
After a soggy and unsettled beginning to the week across parts of England and Wales, the UK is poised for an extended warm spell towards the end of this week and into the weekend.. Temperatures ...
The BBC announce that 26-year-old Matt Smith is to replace David Tennant as The Doctor in sci-fi drama Doctor Who. Smith, who will take over in 2010, will be the youngest ever actor to play the title role. [3] 12 January. Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley host Countdown for the first time.
October 6. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 86 days remain until the end of the year.