{"id":158093,"date":"2025-09-24T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158093\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:38:06","slug":"reighton-roundabout-sheep-sculptures-daubed-with-red-crosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158093\/","title":{"rendered":"Reighton roundabout sheep sculptures daubed with red crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Groups responsible for putting up the flags have told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But others have said it feels provocative at a time when tensions are running high across England over the issue of immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cross said he respected the St George&#8217;s flag, but said they should not be painted on public sculptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am all for having flags on every building, but as for daubing with thick red paint I am totally against it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you want to fly the flag, fly one on the top of your house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Yorkshire Council was approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groups responsible for putting up the flags have told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-158093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}