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Wales Online
Wales Online
National
Will Hayward

St David's Day Bank Holiday special report: Can we afford a bank holiday to celebrate our patron saint's day?

There has been growing pressure in recent years to make St David's Day a bank holiday in Wales.

A petition, on the UK Government website, has more than 10,000 signatures and there have been calls from many places for Wales' patron saint to be honored with a bank holiday. After all, with the union coming under increasing pressure and all the respective nations of the UK looking to assert their unique place within it, what could be better than letting people celebrate Dewi Sant in Wales?

Well despite the calls, the UK Government have so far refused to allowed March 1 to become a bank holiday. WalesOnline has taken a deep dive into the issue to try and make some sense of the debate.

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