The long Easter weekend this year has been a scorcher, with temperatures topping 22C across the UK.
Most of us have enjoyed a four-day weekend, thanks to Good Friday and Easter Monday being bank holidays. Usually, England and Wales have eight bank holidays a year, while Scotland has nine and Northern Ireland has 10.
However this year the UK nations get an extra bank holiday thanks to the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. You won't have to wait for long until the next long bank holiday weekend, either.
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The next UK bank holiday is Monday May 2, known as May Day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Early May Bank Holiday in Scotland.
The bank holidays for the rest of the year are as follows:
- Thursday 2 June - Spring bank holiday
- Friday 3 June - Platinum jubilee bank holiday
- Tuesday 12 July - Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen's Day) (Northern Ireland only)
- Monday 29 August - Summer bank holiday
- Wednesday 30 November - St Andrew's Day (Scotland only)
- Monday 26 December - Boxing Day
- Tuesday 27 December - Christmas Day (substitute day)
The government website says: "If a bank holiday is on a weekend, a ‘substitute’ weekday becomes a bank holiday, normally the following Monday. Your employer doesn’t have to give you paid leave on bank or public holidays.
"Bank holidays might affect how and when your benefits are paid."
