I take issue with John Neimer's comments regarding a new Dorset Flag (Echo, May 5). Mr Neimer seems to have completely missed the point here.
The flag he claims to be the Flag of Dorset is in fact, the arms of Dorset County Council. An organisation! Even the motto is theirs!
It is an arms - not a civil flag. The two are utterly different. There is no flag for all Dorset, hence the debate and contest.
As for St Wite? Possibly the rarest Saint (due to the fact that hers are the only intact remains in all of England, bar Edward the Confessor) and at one time one of the most important in all of England?
We should be celebrating this! St Wite was born in Dorset and died in Dorset, unlike St Aldhelm or St Cuthburga.
Last time I checked, Poole and Bournemouth were still part of Dorset. The councils may be separate, but the people aren't and they have as much right to unified Dorset flag as the rest of us.
Dave White, Campaigner for St Wite's Flag as the Flag of Dorset, Durnover Court, Dorchester.
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