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Stirchley’s MP has condemned “reports of intimidation” as tensions in the suburb simmered over flags going up in the area.

Police were called to the neighbourhood last weekend to keep apart residents and a group responsible for hanging England and Union flags across the city.

Birmingham Live reports that some locals claimed they felt ‘intimidated’ by the group and organised a ‘love not hate’ meet-up on the Saturday.

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Raise the Colours, which has returned to Stirchley several times with cherry pickers to replace flags that had been taken down, said volunteers were there to ‘just start a conversation’, the publication adds.

“I don’t want anyone to be intimidated,” Elliott Stanley, co-f

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