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Extra day off for the coronation

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BRITONS will get an extra day off work for the coronation of King Charles.

The bonus bank holiday next year will fall on Monday, May 8 – two days after the ceremony at Westminste­r Abbey on Saturday, May 6.

Downing Street is understood to have considered pushing the early May bank holiday back a week from May 1 over fears about the cost to the economy of a day’s shutdown. But MPs fell behind the idea of an extra day off. Royal aides are planning a slimmed-down version of the ceremony, which will see Charles III crowned with Queen Consort Camilla.

One-off bank holidays took place twice this year – one for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June and another for her state funeral.

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