A North Tyneside Tory councillor has been found to have breached the council's code of conduct.
A standards committee found Preston councillor Liam Bones breached the code by republishing a controversial story regarding Union Flag bunting and political imagery displayed in the tory group's chamber in the council's Cobalt HQ.
The saga began when a former council monitoring officer, Bryn Roberts, requested conservative councillors remove the Union Flag bunting and images of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill from their group room. Concerns were raised that the imagery could be seen by the public and that the council's building in cobalt should be a "politically neutral venue".
