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Scottish Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Fury as dozens of pupils ‘put into isolation for wearing Union Jack clothes on school's culture day'
Parents complained that their kids 'were made to feel like wearing something British was dirty' IT'S A UNION JOKE Fury as dozens of pupils 'put into isolation for wearing Union Jack clothes on school's culture day' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DOZENS of pupils were put in isolation at a school for sporting Union Jacks on a 'culture day', furious parents claimed yesterday. Leanne Wehrle said her 15-year-old daughter Isobelle, who draped a flag over her shoulders, was among those held in meeting rooms. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Isobelle Wehrle is one of dozens of students across Britain who have been put into isolation for wearing a Union Flag on school 'world culture days', pictured with mum Leanne Credit: Paul Tonge 4 Scarlett, 13, was also punished for wearing a white T-shirt with a Union Jack on it, pictured with mum Jenny And she said when Isobelle questioned the decision she ended up being suspended for five days for arguing. The row echoes The Sun's revelations of a girl at another school being banned from a 'diversity day' for wearing a Union Jack dress. In the latest case, children at Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy in Oldbury, West Mids, were asked to wear outfits to reflect their heritage. Leanne, 39, said: 'Lots wore their flags over their shoulders, and others opted to wear them around their waists as skirts. READ MORE ON WOKE BRITAIN NO FUN ZONE Fury as woke council scraps popular airshow despite it making £60m for economy 'Isobelle was put into an isolation room almost immediately, as were about 30 other kids. Yet many other children wore flags from the countries where their families originated, such as Jamaica and Spain, and had no problem.' Bar owner Mrs Wehrle added: 'Isobelle and her friends were made to feel like wearing something British was dirty. 'When she asked the head why, all he could say was, 'Because it's not allowed'. Isobelle never gets into trouble — not until this happened, at least.' Charity shop worker Jenny Priest said her 13-year-old daughter Scarlett was also put into isolation for wearing a white T-shirt with a Union Jack on it. Jenny, 38, said: 'Isobelle stuck up for my daughter and she got into trouble for that.' Last night the school insisted pupils had been allowed to wear Union Jacks. We should tell woke uni students to grow a pair, but they'd burst into tears & call the cops, says Piers Morgan But it added: 'We have clear guidelines on non-uniform days. No student was suspended due to their choice of outfit on the day.' Last week The Sun told how Courtney Wright, 12, was banned for wearing a Union Jack dress at Bilton School in Rugby, Warwickshire. The school later apologised. 4 Last week The Sun told how Courtney Wright, 12, was banned for wearing a Union Jack dress Credit: Roland Leon
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- The Irish Sun
Fury as dozens of pupils ‘put into isolation for wearing Union Jack clothes on school's culture day'
DOZENS of pupils were put in isolation at a school for sporting Union Jacks on a 'culture day', furious parents claimed yesterday. Leanne Wehrle said her 15-year-old daughter Isobelle, who draped a flag over her shoulders, was among those held in meeting rooms. 4 Isobelle Wehrle is one of dozens of students across Britain who have been put into isolation for wearing a Union Flag on school 'world culture days', pictured with mum Leanne Credit: Paul Tonge 4 Scarlett, 13, was also punished for wearing a white T-shirt with a Union Jack on it, pictured with mum Jenny And she said when Isobelle questioned the decision she ended up being suspended for five days for arguing. The row echoes In the latest case, children at Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy in Oldbury, Leanne, 39, said: 'Lots wore their flags over their shoulders, and others opted to wear them around their waists as skirts. READ MORE ON WOKE BRITAIN 'Isobelle was put into an isolation room almost immediately, as were about 30 other kids. Yet many other children wore flags from the countries where their families originated, such as Bar owner Mrs Wehrle added: 'Isobelle and her friends were made to feel like wearing something British was dirty. 'When she asked the head why, all he could say was, 'Because it's not allowed'. Isobelle never gets into trouble — not until this happened, at least.' Charity shop worker Jenny Priest said her 13-year-old daughter Scarlett was also put into isolation for wearing a white T-shirt with a Union Jack on it. Most read in The Sun Jenny, 38, said: 'Isobelle stuck up for my daughter and she got into trouble for that.' Last night the school insisted pupils had been allowed to wear Union Jacks. We should tell woke uni students to grow a pair, but they'd burst into tears & call the cops, says Piers Morgan But it added: 'We have clear guidelines on non-uniform days. No student was suspended due to their choice of outfit on the day.' Last week The Sun told how The school later apologised. 4 Last week The Sun told how Courtney Wright, 12, was banned for wearing a Union Jack dress Credit: Roland Leon 4 Courtney with her dad, who brought the case to national attention Credit: PA
Metro
4 days ago
- General
- Metro
Fighter jet crashes into school causing fireball while children were in class
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video At least one person has been killed after a training fighter jet crashed in a school campus in Bangladesh while children were in class. Flames have engulfed the Milestone College's Uttara campus, in the capital city of Dhaka. One body has been pulled out from the inferno, while emergency services are still tackling the raging flames – but the number of victims is expected to rise. Footage of the aftermath of the crash shows the fire as crowds watch from a distance. 'Bangladesh Air Force's F-7 BGI training aircraft crashed in Uttara. The aircraft took off at 1.06pm (7.06am GMT),' the military said in a statement. Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ Or you can submit your videos and pictures here. For more stories like this, check our news page. Follow on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news updates. You can now also get articles sent straight to your device. Sign up for our daily push alerts here. MORE: School who banned girl's Union Flag dress forced to shut early after threats MORE: Girl, 12, sent home from Bilton School after wearing Union Jack dress MORE: Pupils hold 'wearing shorts matters' protest in sweltering heatwave
Telegraph
6 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
It is Britain's utter disgrace that wearing the Union Flag has become the ultimate taboo
It was a small and sorry tale that went big. On Friday July 11, as the sun shone down in Warwickshire, Courtney Wright, a Year 7 pupil at the village school in Bilton, Rugby, ought to have had a lovely day. It was the school's 'culture day', and so Courtney donned a cute sequinned Union Flag number and a hat to match. It had shades of the famous dress worn by Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls in 1997, back when Britannia was briefly considered 'cool'. But a few hours later, Courtney's day had turned into an Orwellian nightmare. She found herself sitting outside the school waiting for her father to collect her, having been castigated and expelled. Her crime was wearing British garb, and with it, the suggestion that on a day of cultural celebration for the school 'community' in Warwickshire she was somehow … what? Asserting white supremacy? Racist nationalism? Expressing disgust for the 'diverse' members of the school? This sweet 12-year-old girl was treated as if she'd come dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, or a skinhead from the National Front. Never for a moment dropping the imbecilic woke jargon that led them into this perverse position in the first place, the school issued a sort of bureaucratic apology, which reminded me of the Labour party's apologies for repeated outbreaks of anti-Semitism. Clearly missing the point, it droned that it was 'learning from this experience and ensuring that every student feels recognised and supported when expressing pride in their heritage'. One felt a queasy guffaw rise in the throat as the statement went on. 'As a school, we are reviewing our policies and strengthening staff training to ensure our practices reflect our values of inclusion, respect and understanding for all.' No, you buffoons. This isn't about 'reviewing policies' or 'values of inclusion'. It's about a culture that is so embarrassed and actually hostile to itself that it can't even countenance its own flag worn in sequins and good spirit by a 12-year-old girl. It's about the disastrous policies that have led to a moment in which terrorists are painstakingly afforded all the protections of British and European human rights, and pro-Palestine obsessives can drape themselves in keffiyehs and Palestinian flags, but a girl is humiliated, ostracised and sent home by teachers for celebrating, in the most light-hearted of ways, her British heritage. It's about the catastrophic melange of bad ideas leading to the blind worship of 'multiculturalism'. Careful observers have always known that this term was a mess; it has killed off any understanding of the importance of having a flexible but dominant home culture. One that is critically engaged with its history and heritage, but also insistent upon the Western values that are the fruits of that history and heritage. One that could not only handle, but enjoy, a dress like the one Courtney wore. We all know that Bilton School's aims are not for a moment about actual diversity, whether it is conscious of this fact or not. They are about brainwashing. And what happened to Courtney Wright is a microcosm of what has been happening, at greater intensity, in Britain's wider culture for years. Indeed, Bilton School's notion of 'heritage' as something that's first and foremost 'inclusive', and thus worth celebrating so long as it's not British, will feel very familiar to many. For example, the students at university or pupils at school who, for years, have dared not say anything about the British empire lest they end up conveying something other than scathing hostility. Britain faces a massive crisis of identity, and the events in Rugby have shone a direct light on it. The anti-Britishness of Britain is leading directly to policies, like those of the police and the security services, that harm British children. The grooming gangs weren't stopped, in part, because of a fear of Islamophobia. The security services didn't chase up a lead that might have stopped Salman Abedi from bombing the Manchester Arena; there is no reason to think this blind-eye-turning wasn't, at least in part, caused by the same fear. At the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, the great and the good hung their heads in respect of the victims, but few named what caused the carnage: Islamist terror. Fear of inflaming 'community tensions' – the same reason Jews were told not to hang 'missing' posters of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 – no doubt explain that reticence. I'm as averse to chest-thumping jingoism as the next cosmopolitan, rootless Jew whose patriotic grandparents had to flee their nations – their national loyalty counting for less than zero. Nationalism has long been associated with violence, racism, anti-Semitism and loutishness, to say nothing of Nazism, the most terrifying empire the world has ever seen. But Britain isn't plagued with Nazism, or the murderous racism of the Ku Klux Klan. Not even close. We are, in fact, dealing with a country on its knees, suffering from a lethal lack of confidence. As ever, Europe both experiences and responds to such tensions in volatile technicolour. In Germany, the far-Right, nationalist, anti-immigrant AfD has closer links, for obvious reasons, to the dangerous rhetoric of Germany's recent past. Indeed, celebrating 'Germannness' is, in my view, something that should only be done with the utmost caveating for quite some time to come. At any rate, the AfD's Thuringia chapter is considered its most extreme Right-wing and is on German state watch lists. Its leader, Björn Höcke, has many views ranging from dubious to repellent. He has said that 'the big problem is that one presents Hitler as absolutely evil', wants less Holocaust education and a return to the 'natural gender order', whatever that is. But in his book, Never Twice in the Same River, Höcke, a former school teacher, stumbles on a kernel of truth. He tells how one summer, students at the school started wearing T-shirts with the names of countries printed on them, including 'Turkey', 'Russia' and 'Italy', but of course not Germany. And then a girl showed up wearing a 'Germany' shirt. 'The Turkish and African boys were beside themselves,' writes Höcke. 'These otherwise divided Turks and Africans spontaneously agreed in their aggressive rejection of 'Germanness'.' Höcke then turned up in a 'Germany' shirt the next day, and he was elated when some students followed suit. The point is not that poor old Germany deserves to forget the Holocaust and rehabilitate Hitler; that would be monstrous. It's that societies founder without a clear sense of where they've been, where they are and where they are going. Germany and the rest of Europe do not need to embrace far-Right politics to do this. No, they have only, at least in the first place, to refuse to let worries about offending minorities, or being seen to do so, get in the way of asserting the rule of law. And for the rest of us, the job is to assert the customs and values of the land without fear. Without that clarity of mission and identity, we will continue to see travesties from the small to the cosmic. Thankfully, Britain is not Germany. We have a history without the atrocities of the Nazi era. Our cultural inheritance is so rich, and has so many brilliancies alongside the less good things, that we have a feast of opportunity to work on, if only we were able. Seeing things this way would not only be more interesting and educative for children, it would also save lives.
Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- General
- Daily Mirror
Brits warned they could be fined £2,500 for flying flags including Union Jack
The government has eased restrictions on flying flags, including not only the Union Jack but also the national flags of England and Wales - but falling foul of the rules could result in a fine The Union Jack has been in the limelight this week following an incident in which a 12-year-old girl was put in isolation for wearing the flag to school. However, as the government promotes increased flag displays across the country, households should be mindful of certain rules that, if breached, could lead to a hefty £2,500 fine. The Government has relaxed restrictions on flying flags, including not only the Union Jack but also the national flags of England, Wales, Ireland and indeed any other country. Even county flags, such as Yorkshire's, are being encouraged to fly more frequently as part of the Government's initiative. 'We stayed overnight at this castle's medieval-themed hotel and the kids loved it' It's worth noting that the Union Jack is often referred to as 'the Union Flag' - both terms are acceptable despite the Jack's maritime origins, but they must still be displayed in line with the law to avoid fines. The guidelines for rooftop flag displays are fairly flexible. The government allows certain flags to be flown from rooftops of any size, provided they meet specific criteria. It stipulates all flags must be kept in a safe condition, reports Yorkshire Live. Furthermore, it must have the permission of the owner of the site on which they are displayed (this includes the Highway Authority if the sign is to be placed on highway land). It must not obscure, or hinder the interpretation of official road, rail, waterway or aircraft signs, or otherwise make hazardous the use of these types of transport. It should be removed carefully where so required by the planning authority. Where flags can be flown without needing permission Any national flag, civil ensign or civil air ensign from any country. The flag of the Commonwealth, the United Nations or any other international organisation of which the United Kingdom is a member. A flag representing any island, county, district, borough, burgh, parish, city, town or village within the United Kingdom. The flag of the Black Country, East Anglia, Wessex, any part of Lincolnshire, any Riding of Yorkshire or any historic county within the United Kingdom. The flag of Saint David (Wales). The flag of Saint Patrick (Ireland). The flag of any administrative area within any country outside the United Kingdom. Any flag belonging to His Majesty's forces. The Armed Forces Day flag. The government further clarifies: "There are no restrictions on the size of flag." However, if you plan to fly the flag from a pole extending from any part of a building other than the roof, the rules become more stringent. The Town and Country Planning Regulations 2007 stipulate maximum sizes for flags flown on your house if they're on a pole, not on the roof. The government adds: "The flag may not exceed 2 square metres in size. No restrictions on the size of characters. Consent is required if the flagpole is in a controlled area." Permission is needed if you reside in a designated controlled zone, such as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Failing to comply with these rules could result in individuals being reported and potentially hit with fines of up to £2,500 for ignoring local council orders to remove an oversized flag. The law states: "A person displaying an advertisement in contravention of these Regulations shall be liable, on summary conviction of an offence under section 224(3) of the Act, to a fine of an amount not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale and, in the case of a continuing offence, one tenth of level 4 on the standard scale [£2,500] for each day during which the offence continues after conviction."
