A school was forced to apologise after it sent a 12-year-old pupil home for wearing a Union Jack dress at a class about ...

Voices Flying the union flag is a good idea – it’ll feel like celebrating Prince Andrew’s birthday, every day. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has issued new guidance that ...

Peering up at 147, 12 foot-high flags adorning London’s shopping district, Brenda Tode shows off her new Union Jack top to classmates on a school trip from Berlin. “Look it matches!” she says.

The Union Jack combines the crosses that appeared on the flags of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Wales is not represented, as it was considered part of England in 1801, when George III adopted ...

The Union Jack became the standard “Navy Jack” on June 14, 1777. And except for a symbolic 14-month period during the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial celebrations, it was in constant U.S. Navy service.

Quartermaster 3rd Class Danaril Mojet, left, and Quartermaster 2nd Class Matthew Lewis on board the aircraft carrier John C Stennis at Naval Station Norfolk, salute after hoisting the Union Jack ...