Government confirms there’ll be eight more bank holidays before the end of 2025

However, there is a slight twist.

The catch is that it depends on where you're living in the UK.

This was the case for Easter, which just passed, as both Good Friday and Easter Sunday were bank holidays in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but in Scotland, they only had Good Friday off.

In a post to social media, the UK Government revealed the remaining bank holidays for the year.

There will be UK-wide bank holidays on Monday, May 5 and on Monday, May 26.

This is also the case for Christmas and Boxing Day, Thursday and Friday, December 25 and 26.

Northern Ireland will have its own bank holiday on Monday, July 14, to mark the Battle of the Boyne, and Scotland will have Monday, August 4 off for the summer bank holiday.

For England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Monday, August 25, will mark the summer bank holiday. Scotland will be alone in marking the St Andrew's Day bank holiday on Monday, December 1.

May 8 of this year will mark 80 years since VE Day, the day on which the Allies formally accepted Germany's surrender. There were calls for the date to be made a bank holiday to commemorate it, however a spokesperson for the Prime Minister confirmed this would not be happening.

They told the media that the PM's plans "do not include an additional bank holiday".

They added: "We will look to use the existing May Day bank holiday for commemorative events. We are committed to commemorating these nationally important occasions appropriately, which is why we have announced more than £10m to mark them."