British Airways scrapped the Union Jack on half its fleet to seem more international.
Organizers will be handing out 250, 000 Union Jack ponchos to the water-logged masses.
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The union jack will be revealed for the national anthem in a special way.
The models clomped their way to the center of the Union Jack stage before being whisked away.
It will feature a union jack and a montage of photographs of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Dorset.
The Union Jack behind the band was joined by the Stars and Stripes.
Images from Quito showed protesters holding signs saying: "We are sovereign, not colonies" and a union jack being stepped on.
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The brand is best known for its fit, along with its Union Jack logo and signature triangle flap back pocket.
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Just last year Hong Kong swapped its Union Jack-cornered banner for a bauhinia bloom and China's golden stars on a red sky.
The Banksy mural, depicting a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, disappeared from Whymark Avenue earlier this month.
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Buglers played as the union jack was lowered for the last time.
He also supports his local football team, cites fish and chips as his favourite food, while his dad wears a union jack waistcoat.
She toured the Olympic track draped in a Union Jack -- and taking the other heptathlon competitors along with her for the ride.
Members of the Red Devils aerobatics team parachuted on to the course flying a large union jack at the start of the day.
It took a few months to get used to not seeing the Union Jack flying or the lights on in the building at night.
British forces raised the Union Jack over Possession Point in 1841 during the First Opium War, fought to protect the Queen's trade of the narcotic.
The union jack-draped coffin had arrived earlier in an escorted hearse.
During Wednesday's service, the union jack was lowered before being taken to a memorial garden at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire where future repatriation flights will land.
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BTA's announcement last week that it would revamp its marketing, using a new less-traditional logo which, unlike the current one, is not dominated by the Union Jack.
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Tensions have been high since City Council members there voted a month ago to stop flying the Union Jack flag year-round, restricting it instead to certain days.
Vivienne Westwood did it last year and used a Union Jack motif so the red, white and blue is like a section taken through the middle of the flag.
Only one man had come prepared for the autumnal seaside weather and he was wearing what appeared to be a Union Jack teacosy - on message but not en vogue.
The court was told a photograph was also taken of Gilmour holding on to a Union Jack which was hanging from the Cenotaph, an incident for which he later apologised.
And it may not be wise to follow the example of the man in the wool Union Jack cap who crashed Simpson's victory interview on NBC and cooed what sounded like a lonely seagull call.
Everything (except the bed - "too big to bring our own") was a genuine domestic item from the home of CF chiefs, even down to the frayed Union Jack underpants slung on top of the linen basket.
On display will be more than 60 stage-costumes including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, Kansai Yamamoto's flamboyant creations for the Aladdin Sane tour (1973) and the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for the Earthling album cover (1997).
"I played golf for Ireland and I played for Great Britain and Ireland, so I've walked out to the Irish national anthem and stood under the Irish flag and I've walked out to the British national anthem and stood under the Union Jack, " she said.
After all, he has made a "fashion statement" or two appearing clad in pants that appear to have been created by hacking up a stars and stripes flag (you can get into some serious trouble for that in the U.S.) and a shirt that incorporates the Union Jack.
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