Calls for St David's Day to be made a bank holiday have received a boost after the Secretary of State for Wales said he is in favour of it. 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 13,000 signatures and there have been calls from many places for Wales' patron saint to be honoured with a bank holiday.
Now, in an interview with S4C's Y Byd yn ei Le programme, Sir Robert Buckland has said: "I've always been very sympathetic to that. I think however we have got to be careful about having a plethora of too many bank holidays."
