After the banners first appeared on lampposts in towns on 25 June, a post by Calderdale Reform UK appeared online.<\/p>\n
It read: “Thank you to all those who have contacted us, regarding the Pride banners\/flags which have appeared across Calderdale on street furniture.<\/p>\n
“We will be moving to immediately remove the flags and take legal actions against those responsible, in order to recoup the removal costs.”<\/p>\n
Despite requests to speak to someone from the party no further explanation, or detail about the complaints, was provided. <\/p>\n
Calderdale Council was contacted by the BBC on 25 June and on 30 June a spokesperson came back with an official comment. <\/p>\n
It said: “The Council did not approve installation of these banners.”<\/p>\n
Courtney said: “These have been put up legally, by the company the council uses for banner advertising, and paid for by the community.<\/p>\n
“These aren’t flags that have been tied to lampposts, these are paid-for banners in licensed advertising space.<\/p>\n
“I think for flags that have gone up on lampposts I totally support them being taken down because, as a previous Lead Member for Highways (on the council), I know that that’s not allowed.<\/p>\n
“And I wouldn’t advocate people putting flags up on lampposts of any sort really.” <\/p>\n
She said the campaign began after the council told her the Pride flag would no longer be flown on official buildings. <\/p>\n
“We have paid for 30 across Calderdale, spread around the borough to help promote that all people are welcome,” she said.<\/p>\n
Courtney said the banners in towns including Elland, Brighouse, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden and Hebden Bridge, would be in place for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the banners first appeared on lampposts in towns on 25 June, a post by Calderdale Reform UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667515","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=667515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}