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Article: Put out more flags.(symbol for north-east England debated)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2000
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YORKSHIRE has the white rose; Lancashire has the red rose. But what does the north-east have as a regional symbol? The question is beginning to worry some north-easterners who reckon that a regional flag might gain them more respect in the outside world, as well as serving as a rallying point for the Geordie nation.
The search for symbols is taking them back a long way into the past. In the 6th century, there were two northern kingdoms east of the Pennines- -Deira, which roughly corresponds to modern Yorkshire, and Bernicia, from the Tees to the Scottish border. In the 7th century, they united into one kingdom from the North to the Humber, hence the modern name ...