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Andy Ormrod, the owner of Flying Colors Flagmakers Ltd, inspects a newly produced European Union EU flag in their premises in Knaresborough, northern England on February 7, 2019. Photo by OLI SCARFF / AFP KNARESBOROUGH, UK mdash; At a flag-making workshop in northe stanley cup rn England, orders for Union Jacks are flying off the production line while the EUrsquo blue-and-yellow standard is proving less and less popular.Flying Colors, which makes flags for Britainrsquo royal palaces, has seen EU flag orders drop by 90 percent since the country voted to leave the bloc in 2016.Article continues after this advertisement Wersquo;ve certainly seen a fall, Andy Ormrod, director of the factory in North Knaresborough in Yorkshire, told AFP.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationTimes have changed, our attitudes have changedhellip;. The demand isnrsquo;t there, he said.Britainrsquo union flag is proving more popular than ever, with orders up roughly 75 percent since last summer.People are getting a little bit more passionate, I personally think, in being British, said Ormrod, who voted for Brexit because he is ldquo ick and tired of Brussels.I have a feeling that we are wanting more of our identity within the UK, the flag-maker adde stanley cup website d.Article c stanley cup ontinues after this a Jbfi Shabu worth P6.5M seized in Lanao Norte town drug bust
STRICTER SCREENING Immigration officials have tightened the screening of departing Filipino workers to stop the trafficking of minors. mdash;Grig MontegrandeImmigration officials at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Naia are alarmed over the growing number of underage Filipino women who try to leave the country and work abroad using fraudulent travel documents.Since June, a total of 114 girls below 21 years old have been turned away by airport officials, according to Marc Red Marintilde;as, acting immigration deputy commissioner and Port Operations Division chief.Article continues after this advertisement He said that in June alone, 67 people who confessed to being minors were barred from leaving the country.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral stanley mugs video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFO7 bakery workers killed in Cupang, Antipolo City stabbingNEWSINFOLacson to PNP: Recover ransom in Q stanley uk ue slay case to regain public trustMarintilde;as said that all of the apprehended passengers presented pass stanley cup ports showing that they were adults. They also had valid overseas employment permits, working visas and job contracts.It is evident that these young women were victimized by syndicates that specialize in the procurement of documents to make it appear that they are old enough to work abroad, he added.40 rescued in raidLast month, the Manila Police District rescued more than 40 women, some of them minors, during a raid in Sta. Cruz, Manila. They were illegally recruited f
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