Feeding (and feeding off) the multitudeIAN GAVAN/GETTY IMAGES Sunday's child, Ed Sheeran. Or more pertinently the multitudes attending Sheeran's three concerts next year, the third of which is Easter Sunday. Between 60,000 and 90,000 of the tickets sold are to visitors, so the influx is clearly going to be massive. If anything, the wider source of lamentation is that it intrudes into ability of families to take holiday together, breadwinners included. Easter has long been one of the holdouts against extended trading, albeit with giddying inconsistencies depending on where you live.

Source: Stuff December 11, 2017 14:03 UTC