Pre-formed bag dispenser and bags therefor

A pre-formed bags dispenser comprising a container and located therein a stack of pre-formed bags and attachment means, the container having an access aperture, the bags of the stack each having a flattened body which is formed with opposed front and back walls lying together and has a closed base end and an opposite mouth end, and the bags being retained together in the stack by separable attachment at their mouth ends to the attachment means at lines of weakening, the stack having a transverse bend intermediate the base and mouth ends of the bags whereby a first portion of the stack containing the base ends is deviated from a second portion of the stack containing the mouth ends in a direction towards which external surfaces of the back walls of the bags face, and a portion of the front walls of the bags at the second portion are tensioned and presented towards the access aperture such that the bag nearest to the aperture has exposed a portion of its front wall which extends from adjacent the mouth end towards the bend for that body to be drawn out through the aperture by manual pulling of the front wall relative to the attachment means, and the separable attachment of the bags to the attachment menas allows separation of the bag so pulled from the attachment means in a progressive action which opens the mouth of the bag, wherein the bags of the stack are formed with handles at their mouth ends, the mouth ends of the bags being separably attached to the attachment means at the handles and the mouth ends of the bags are also separably attached to the attachment means at the mouths of the bags and in that the attachment means is spaced from the mouths of the bags so as to define a gap between the attachment means and the mouths of the bags.