Call for new 'hero' bank holiday
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Gordon Brown is urged by a think tank to create a new bank holiday to celebrate community heroes.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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The Dutch Red Cross will send buses with volunteers carrying roses to old age homes on Valentine's Day to urge lonely pensioners to ask others out on a date, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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Two government ministers have proposed that Britain inaugurate a new national holiday to celebrate the country's history and achievements: Britain Day.
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The TUC calls for three extra bank holidays including one to ease the "slog" between the end of summer and Christmas.
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A national day to celebrate Britain's values and achievements is being proposed by two senior ministers. Could it help promote integration?
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Not everyone has a date for Valentine's Day. Help them spend away their grief.
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What better day than Children's Day to spread awareness about the link between cruelty to animals and violence against children?
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The transformation of a popular beauty spot is being celebrated tomorrow.   Over the past year a series of improvements have been carried out at Fairy Dell at Coulby Newham, Middlesbrough.   A wildlife fun day is being held tomorrow from 11am to 3pm at the park.
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MOSCOW  - Russians marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on Sunday with marches, Communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday. Some pro-Kremlin legislators have proposed replacing the Nov. 7 holiday with a new holiday on Nov. 4 to be called National Unity Day. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is expected to consider the measure Wednesday in the first of three required votes.
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Retailers promote a new Labor Day kickoff. Would we kid you?
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A group of MPs are calling for the Bank of England to be more open about the way it sets interest rates.
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to press private banks to hand over details of their offshore accounts.
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Calls for investigation into overnight allowance that is 'taken on trust'
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By Anna Lognonne  Farming Matters. That's the statement at the heart of a fact and fun-packed campaign being launched by the NFU at the Northumberland County Show this Bank Holiday Monday.
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DOWN Anfield Road they love their heroes. They compose verses to celebrate them, make gates to honour them and erect memorials to remember them.