The World - News from Jan. 10, 1986
More than 600 balloons carrying the slogan “Keep Sunday Special” were released in London to launch a campaign against plans to let stores open freely on the Sabbath. Church leaders, trade unionists, some major retailers and politicians of Britain’s main parties joined in battle against a government proposal for the total deregulation of Sunday trading. They described it as an attack on tradition, arguing that it would bring higher prices, the closing of thousands of small shops and a fundamental change in national life. Current law forbids Sunday trading but allows numerous exceptions and has been widely flouted.
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