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# Progress flag raised in Wiltshire town to mark Pride Month torn down in what is being called a “hate crime”
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/progress-flag-raised-in-wiltshire-town-to-mark-pride-month-torn-down-in-what-is-being-called-a-hate-crime/
- Published: 2024-06-07T14:30:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-07T13:25:20.000Z
- Description: Wiltshire Police is investigating after a progress flag, which had been raised next to the Ludgershall‘s war memorial to mark Pride Month, was torn down and stolen in what is being called a “hate crime”. Officers said a male suspect was seen using ladders from a nearby work van to access the flagpol
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: LGBTQ, pride month

**Wiltshire Police** is investigating after a progress flag, which had been raised next to the **Ludgershall**‘s war memorial to mark **Pride Month**, was torn down and stolen in what is being called a “hate crime”.

Officers said a male suspect was seen using ladders from a nearby work van to access the flagpole and was driving a silver Honda Accord.

“**Ludgershall Town Council** really wanted to show they were a progressive council in a progressive town, but it seems we have a way to go,” a spokesperson said in a statement.

The progress version of the traditional rainbow flag includes extra coloured stripes to represent people of colour in the LGBTQ+ community, the transgender community, and those living with HIV and AIDS.

Anybody with information relating to the incident is asked to contact police.