The Union Jack (above), as the flag is colloquially known, is an amalgam of the flags of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In the sequence we show here: Scotland’s saltire of St Andrew, ...

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m.p ...

and the jack of St Andrew's cross used in Scotland were combined to create the Union Jack (the jack referring to a small flag flown on a ship). In 1801, after the union with Ireland, the jack with ...

But the Republic of Ireland ... raising the Union flag and cemented a plaque into the rock. The UK passed its Island Of Rockall Act in 1972, formally incorporating it into Scotland's Western ...