Black Friday (shopping) Black Friday. In 2015, Black Friday was predicted to become the biggest day of shopping in Britain, with as much as £2bn spent in shops and online in 24 hours. However, many large retailers have discontinued, downplayed or heavily modified the concept since 2014, sometimes citing disruption to Christmas trading patterns or bad publicity. Black Friday appears to be growing in popularity year on year in the UK. In 2016, total spending on online retail sites on Black Friday 2016 was £1.23bn, marking a +12.2% increase on the £1.1bn spent on the same day in 2015. In 2017, retail sales
Brawling Act 1551 related to the punishment of persons convicted of striking with any weapon, or drawing any weapon with intent to strike as therein mentioned, was repealed by section 1 of the Offences against the Person Act 1828 (9 Geo 4 c 31). The marginal note to that section said that the effect of this was to repeal section 3 of the Brawling Act 1551. Brawling Act 1551 The Brawling Act 1551 (5 & 6 Edw 6 c 4) was an Act of the Parliament of England. This Act was repealed, so far as it related to persons not in Holy Orders,