Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still from a video showing patriotism campaigners about to attach a St George's flag to a lamppost in Tower Hamlets A second ...

The St George’s flag was once considered a “safe”, more inclusive, alternative to the union jack after the latter was co-opted by the National Front in the Seventies. It became cool in the Nineties ...

The Cross of St. George is appearing up and down England, in numbers usually only seen during soccer tournaments such as the World Cup. “Operation Raise the Colours” is the name given to the movement, ...

RUGBY, England—Stuart Field raised his first flags in July: the English red cross of St. George and also a smattering of the British red, white and blue, hanging them from his hometown’s streetlights.

St George's flags fly from lampposts in York, northern England, as a new trend for flying such pennants including the Union Jack has emerged in recent weeks in a ...

Birmingham city council wants to remove British flags from the streets of the city “to protect public safety”. On Wednesday, the council – run by a coalition of the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and ...

A rebel left-wing Labour and Co-operative MP has called English flags "tatty bits of cloth" and said they should be removed from lamp posts. Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central - who had the whip ...