A union flag flying on St. George's Day at council offices in Dorchester irked one man so much that he brought his own flag to the offices - while dressed up as a First World War soldier.

At around 10 am on Monday, Nick Parry went to South Walks House, home of the councils partnership amalgamating West Dorset and North Dorset district councils and Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, to ask the building management to fly a St. George's Cross flag in honour of the patron saint's day, rather than a Union flag.

Later the same day, at around 2 pm, he returned to the offices, which were still flying the Union flag, and presented them with a St. George's flag.

He says that he was told that he would have to make any flag-changing request in writing.

WATCH Mr Parry deliver his flag to South Walks House

WATCH Mr Parry deliver his flag to South Walks House

"I'm not a right-wing fascist," Mr Parry stressed to the Echo. "I love everybody.

"But why should the Scottish, the Welsh, get to fly their flags, and we can't? We have a population of 59 million. They support their countries, but we don't.

"England is discriminated against."

A spokesman for West Dorset District Council said the building's flag policy was in line with government guidance.

“We raised the Union flag to our main pole sited on the roof of South Walks House prior to the opening of the building at 6:54 am," the spokesman said.

"The flag was then lowered after the office was closed. The council flies flags in line with Government guidance and this was the case in this instance, with the Union flag being raised to mark St Georges Day.

“Where a building has two or more flag poles the appropriate national flag may be flown in addition to the Union flag but not in a superior position.

South Walks House does have a second flag pole on which an England flag could have been flown; this has not previously been undertaken for the relevant saint's days, but could be considered going forward.”

Mr Parry, who runs a Broadmayne motorcycle training academy and also works as a psychiatric nurse, often dresses up in his First World War British private's uniform - sometimes accompanied by his young son, dressed as a German counterpart - and collects money, which he donates to a number of military charities.

Gerald Duke, who sits on Dorchester Town Council as well as the district council, said the St George's flag needed to be 'resurrected' after years of association with the far right.

"The national flag has been taken over - there are certain sensitivities," Cllr Duke noted. "But it should be flown with pride - especially on St. George's Day. It needs to be wrestled back from the National Front and their ilk."