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MP Eleanor Laing calls for new bank holiday to celebrate Magna Carta

In News on October 13, 2011 at 8:25 PM

By Peter Brown

Every day should be a holiday, sang the Dandy Warhols, and if a Conservative MP gets her way then the UK could be enjoying a special bank holiday from 2015.

Eleanor Laing, MP for Epping Forest, recently introduced a Ten Minute Rule Bill to the House of Commons calling for a bank holiday on June 15th 2015 to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta.

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