{"id":347588,"date":"2025-08-15T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347588\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T22:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T22:10:29","slug":"council-takes-down-england-and-union-flags-hung-by-birmingham-locals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/347588\/","title":{"rendered":"Council takes down England and union flags hung by Birmingham locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hayley Owens, a former West Midlands Police investigator who is now a podcaster, told the BBC that the decision had caused a lot of controversy with local residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I just don&#8217;t think an attachment of a flag to a lamppost is a safety concern,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The potholes are a safety concern, the rubbish flying around the streets that aren&#8217;t being collected is a safety concern, but the flags aren&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the flags had &#8220;brought so much joy to the community&#8221;, adding: &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s buzzing, everybody&#8217;s really happy seeing the flags, everybody&#8217;s talking about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Owens, a former West Midlands Police investigator who is now a podcaster, told the BBC that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-347588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115035073673362431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}