TV reporter Terry Fleet is in Westward Ho! near Bideford. The seaside traders are disappointed after the wet bank holiday weekend. Until 1971 the summer bank holiday was the first Monday in August and originally for bank employees. From 1965 until 1970 England, Wales and Northern Ireland trialled having the holiday on the last Monday in August and the Banking and Financial Dealings Act of 1971 made it law. Scotland retained the first Monday in August as the Bank Holiday.