A defiant villager has told how he faced death threats and vile abuse for weeks for daring to take down Union flags put up by outsiders near his home in Alvechurch as he urged people to 'open their eyes'.

In the latest targeted attack, his face has been emblazoned across a set of St George's Cross flags with the caption 'This Is England' and hung up near his home.

Concerned neighbours have taken most of them down and told him 'we've got your back'.

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He has been buoyed by the support, with one teenage migrant living in the village writing to him: "Because of you I feel safer...I felt alienated going outside, I thought the place I called home hated me." A neighbour in her 80s said of the flagger movement

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