Change your calendars This year, in the UK, April Fool's Day has been moved to 2nd April. This woefully unpublicised decision is set to catch many of the country's pranksters off guard and, perhaps more worryingly, prolong the suffering of prankstees for a further 24 hours. The decision is tied up with proposed changes to the Bank Holiday system in the UK. Bank Holidays were first introduced in the Bank Holidays Act of 1871. Authored by Sir John Lubbock, a banker with a passion for cricket, he designated official holidays throughout the year based on his home county's village match calendar. In England and Wales these were Easter Monday, Whit Monday, and the 1st Monday in August. In Ireland (still under UK rule at the time), St Stephen's Day was added and in England and Wales, Boxing Day. In Scotland the bank holidays were New Year's Day, Good Friday, 1st Monday in May, 1st Monday in August and Christmas Day. In England, Wales and Ireland, Good Friday and Chri
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