The activist behind the Raise the Colours campaign to erect flags around the UK is now facing more than a dozen charges from the Police.

The counts include threatening and abusive behaviour, racially aggravated offences and assault.

Ryan Bridge, 45, of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire has been attaching the flags to lampposts in the Midlands and the south of England since last year.

Thames Valley Police said on Sunday that Bridge has been charged with 14 offences. They are:

• Seven counts of using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

• Three counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of, or provoke, unlawful violence.

• Two counts of racially aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress.

• One count of racially aggravated fear of violence.

• One count of common assault.

The Police said the charges relate to reported incidents between 31 January and 31 March 2026 in Oxfordshire.

Bridge is due to appear at Oxford