Smaller bonfires, fewer flags 07/10/2017 My mother is a widow who lives alone in a council estate. She is 87 and not good on her feet. Carers pop in to help her. Her bed is in the front living room. For four months she looks out on a bonfire site that rises to the size of a tower block in July. It is 49-paces away. Flags are part of the package. My father complained about it to the police and council. He had given up on politics. Nothing was done. An ex-servicemen and trade unionist, he hated how the national flag was
My mother is a widow who lives alone in a council estate. She is 87 and not good on her feet. Carers pop in to help her. Her bed is in the front living room. For four months she looks out on a bonfire site that rises to the size of a tower block in July. It is 49-paces away. Flags are part of the package. My father complained about it to the police and council. He had given up on politics. Nothing was done. An ex-servicemen and trade unionist, he hated how the national flag was
