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Angus County Council, Scotland

image located by Valentin Poposki, 12 December 2007

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7012000/7012734.stm?category=films

Angus County Council

Angus County Council

On 26 September, BBC News Service reported the adoption of a new flag by the Angus Council and the debate the decision has triggered. There seems to be some strong political background behind the case.

"The local authority has approved proposals to create a new flag based on the council's coat of arms, at a cost of more than Ł4,000. The standard would be raised outside 10 key buildings across the region instead of the national flag. Critics have set up an online petition against the idea, which has so far attracted more than 1,000 signatures. The measure was agreed by the Angus Alliance, a coalition which replaced the SNP as the ruling administration at the last election. SNP councillor Donald Morrison told the BBC Scotland website that he thought the decision was "wrong".
[More critics of the decision are included in the article.]

Councillors in Angus recently approved the plan, which was put forward by the local authority's chief executive, David Sawers. In a committee report, Mr Sawers said: "The matter of flag flying is one for individual local authorities to determine. "At present the Saltire is flown on key council buildings within each of the burghs and is only replaced by the Union flag on Remembrance Day or for certain Royal events. "It has been suggested that it would be more appropriate for a flag that represents Angus uniquely to be flown at key council buildings and for this flag to be based on the council's Coat of Arms." There has been talk of a compromise, where additional flagpoles would be erected so both the Saltire and the Angus flag could fly over council buildings.

The design consists of four quarters containing a crowned lion passant, a cinquefoil, a checked stripe crossed with buckled belt and a depiction of the heart of Robert the Bruce to represent the four ancient earldoms of Angus. [...]

Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7012734.stm
"The Scotsman", 27 September 2007: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1543942007
the petition against the flag change: http://www.petitiononline.com/saltire/

Ivan Sache, 30 September 2007