Sub-national Areas
Flags are often used to represent counties, cities and towns. Where these are based on a council's banner of arms they are technically for the use of the council, but they are often used to represent the wider area, including by official bodies such as the Department for Communities and Local Government. Some local authorities have officially recorded that their banners of arms can be used for this purpose, though since 2012 it has been permitted to fly a flag of any island, county, district, borough, burgh, parish, city, town or village within the United Kingdom without local authority permission or consent.
Read more about this topic: List Of British Flags
Famous quotes containing the word areas:
“The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know—Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel—the quality of philosophy.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)