{"id":158491,"date":"2025-09-25T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158491\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:09:09","slug":"reighton-roundabout-sheep-sculptures-daubed-with-red-crosses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/158491\/","title":{"rendered":"Reighton roundabout sheep sculptures daubed with red crosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Dale &amp; Leanne BrownYorkshire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758633008_321_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 iMuqLZ hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/416778b0-9957-11f0-9789-e38e7689efaf.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Leanne Brown\/BBC A fibre glass sculpture of a sheep which has had a red cross daubed on it in paint\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 fHZDyi\"\/>Leanne Brown\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>The sculptures were created by a local artist and erected on the roundabout in 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Red crosses have been daubed on sculptures of sheep on a North Yorkshire roundabout, drawing criticism from a local councillor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The 2011 artwork includes a shepherd, his dog and a flock of five sheep and stands on the Dotterel roundabout, near Reighton, on the A165 between Bridlington and Filey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">The fibreglass sculptures were created by artist and teacher Ronald Falck, who died in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;I see this as an important landmark and I was absolutely horrified this morning,&#8221; said Sam Cross, a North Yorkshire Council representative for the Filey area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Cross said he spotted them on his way to work in Bridlington and returned with methylated spirits and a scourer to try and clean the paint off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been scrubbing for half an hour and to be quite honest I think they are all going to need repainting,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve put thick red gloss paint on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A growing number of St George&#8217;s and union jack flags have been going up in cities, towns and villages across the country in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758633008_321_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 iMuqLZ hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c6def6e0-995b-11f0-af33-e32b3939e8ca.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Leanne Brown\/BBC A fibreglass sculpture of a sheep which has had a red cross daubed on it in paint\" class=\"sc-86c96223-0 fHZDyi\"\/>Leanne Brown\/BBC<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture includes five sheep, a sheepdog and a shepherd<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Groups responsible for putting up the flags have told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">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=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Cross said he respected the St George&#8217;s flag, but said they should not be painted on public sculptures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#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=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">&#8220;If you want to fly the flag, fly one on the top of your house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">North Yorkshire Council was approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Dale &amp; Leanne BrownYorkshire Leanne Brown\/BBC The sculptures were created by a local artist and erected on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158492,"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-158491","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\/158491","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=158491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}