Man questioned about flags put on city lampposts
Express and Echo
|January 01, 2026
A MAN has been interviewed amid efforts to recoup the costs of removing flags in Exeter that were reattached moments after being removed.
Last month highways workers took down flags that had been attached to lampposts on Exeter’s Bridge Road, but then, just moments after, someone scaled a ladder to attach new ones.
The saga prompted warnings from Devon County Council about the dangers of putting flags on lampposts, and led it to remind residents that attaching items to them is technically an offence.
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