A flag-raising ceremony will be held to mark Commonwealth Day outside a city's town hall. Peterborough City Council will join ...

Under the new rules, Harrison said the union jack flag and the county council's own flag would fly permanently on two of the ...

A flag-raising ceremony will be held to mark Commonwealth Day outside a city's town hall. Peterborough City Council will join 56 independent member countries to mark the occasion.

New Reform council leader Dan Harrison said the changes to flag flying protocols were "to celebrate British values that unite us all". Some staff groups at the council, where Reform formed a minority ...

During Queen Elizabeth II's 70-year reign, she saw the rapid decline of the British Empire and was monarch to 15 of the 56 member states of the Commonwealth.

Most of the Commonwealth's 56 member nations are former colonies the British Empire. In those countries, the coronation is an occasion to recall colonialism’s painful and bloody past.