A Year 7 student was left "embarrassed" after she was removed from class for wearing an "unacceptable" Union Flag dress for her school's culture day - but Coventry Live readers in our comments sections have given her their full backing after the school apologised for the incident.

12-year-old Courtney Wright, from Coventry, had prepared a speech on British history and customs for the school culture day, and wore a Spice Girls-inspired dress emblazoned with the Union Flag. In the run-up to Culture Celebration Day at Bilton School in Rugby, Warwickshire, a letter sent home to parents described the event as "designed to promote inclusion, understanding, and appreciation of different backgrounds, traditions and heritages".

But the dress was deemed to be "unacceptable", and she........

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