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Council crackdown on pirates

A Hampshire woman has been ordered to remove a pirate flag from her garden. Carol Clark was told the skull and crossbones breaches advertising rules. “It’s daft. I thought someone was playing a joke at first,” she told the Daily Mirror.

Keen sailor Carol hoisted the black and white Jolly Roger after a friend gave it to her as a joke. But her local council says only national or regional flags may be flown without planning permission - because everything else is deemed to be advertising.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .