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A leading figure in the Oxfordshire's Raise the Colours movement is due to stand trial accused of making indecent images of children.

Ben Cullen is due to appear before a jury at Reading Crown Court on July 1 having been charged with three counts of the offence.

Court documents say the 45-year-old is accused of making 22 indecent category A photographs, including one moving image, in Wallingford on March 25, 2021.

He is also accused of making indecent pseudo-photographs, namely 36 Category B images of children at the same place and on the same date as well as making 20 Category C images of children.

Cullen, who lives in Wallingford, has been a leading figure behind the Raise the Colours movement, which gained more than 4,000 members of its Facebook social media page but appears to have since been deleted.

The group has been putting up flags across Oxfordshire, from Wallingford to Wantage and from Oxford to Witney.

Motorists will have seen the flags flying from lampposts since last summer. And most of them were put up by the small group of people.

Key figures have said they are motivated by patriotism, but it has received criticism from others.

Earlier this month, Oxfordshire County Council won an injunction against the group and four members including Cullen to stop putting up flags.

Oxfordshire County Council said it brought legal action to stop people raising flags near highways, saying it involved safety risks, as well as trespass and obstruction.

After a short hearing at the High Court where the group represented themselves, the group members agreed not to put up more flags, not to encourage others to do so, and not to obstruct any council worker or contractor taking them down.

Cullen, of Wallingford, is due to appear at Reading Crown Court on July 1.

They sneaked the news out in a paragraph near the bottom of an article about a nature podcast - “As part of the BBC’s evolving commissioning strategy, Winterwatch will not be continuing.”

I thought this was coming when they reduced it from two weeks to one. You can send in comments to the BBC here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments

They sneaked the news out in a paragraph near the bottom of an article about a nature podcast - "As part of the BBC’s evolving commissioning strategy, Winterwatch will not be continuing."

I thought this was coming when they reduced it from two weeks to one. You can send in comments to the BBC here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comments

!bike_cams@piefed.world

Your favourite footage of the wild and wacky people you come across when you cycle. Intended as a place to post clips for discussions about cycling safety, we all know that we love watching idiots doing their idiot things.

It's never just one minority.

You get adverts where people drive their cars over beautiful garden chess boards, and up stairs with your smirking face in order to make the woman want sex with you. You get adverts where you pick your kids up from football, actually driving on the pitch behind the goal mouth, and all the kids think you are wonderful. You then drive your stupid fucking car down the middle of a row of tents with people outside, inches from their faces, and they are all wowed at your prowess.

We used to get adverts on telly telling us how to drive safely, now we get adverts imploring us to drive like cunts.

!orphan_crushing@piefed.world

Heartwarming stories of people who occasionally save babies from the Orphan Crushing Machine.

I know that they aren't really falling down the stairs in the same way that I would, and breaking a bone on every step. Presumably there is a technique for descending the stairs in such a way that it looks like you are falling down them.

Actions speak louder than words. His actions in driving up the costs of fossil fuels, and showing the fragility the supply chain, is doing more to persuade other countries to divest from fossil fuels than any words from a sane president ever could. The decline of the US is an example of how it disadvantages a country to continue relying on them, while other countries forge ahead with renewables.

As Steve would say - waark waark waaaark! In English this means we are moving to https://piefed.world/c/gullfriends
Please join for your fix of Larus love.

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!gullfriends@piefed.world

Never mind the crow bros, here’s the gullfriends.

Herring gulls live for 12 years, mate for life, and are intelligent social birds. This is a place to appreciate positive interactions with the little skwarkers. They are on the red endangered list in the UK and a protected species, so let’s all be nice to them.

Morning. A bit of sad news - the instance that Gullfriends is hosted on is shutting down, so we will be moving to a new one. I don't know which one yet, but I will post here when it is set up. I will seed it with the posts I made here, but all the other posts will probably disappear, I guess. I'm not actually sure what happens.

Anyway, thanks to lemmings.world for hosting us, and good luck to the owner in whatever they do next.