Overview

• Brighton and Hove says flag removals on the A259 will resume this week after contractors paused work following verbal abuse, with police to handle any reports of threats.
• Police inquiries are under way into painted St George’s crosses on public highways, including cases in Walsall in the West Midlands and on a roundabout in Llandudno, North Wales.
• Bristol City Council will remove or paint over flags applied to roads and roundabouts for safety compliance, while York is stripping painted markings and Derby says it has no plans to repaint roundabouts, expecting the paint to wear off.
• Wiltshire Council classifies the road paintings as vandalism and says removal and repairs will be paid by taxpayers, warning of disruption as markings and signs are cleaned.
• Reuters reports the movement evolved from Birmingham’s Weoley Warriors and related online groups, with mixed political reactions, a prime ministerial spokesman backing lawful displays of patriotism, and HOPE not hate linking some organisers to established far‑right figures.