REGARDING Mr R Holdsworth's remarks (Letters, February 8) about the Union Jack not being flown on Blackburn's new police station, every public building in our country should be flying it or the Cross of St George.

You only need to cross the Channel to see every country flies its flag with pride and so they should. Why do people think the BNP is becoming so popular? It's things like this that are getting at people -- when you are called a racist for flying the Union Jack. People are scared of saying anything about anything to do with race.

GARY BOWERS, Bolton Rod, Ewood, Blackburn.