BORDER DRAGON 'BACK TO FRONT' WALES.Byline: By KELLY FENNA DRIVERS have spotted something strange about the new pounds 61m gateway between England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. ......the Welsh dragon appears to be pointing the wrong way. The artwork on a grassy bank on top of the North Wales border is facing the opposite way than it features on the national flag. Bemused readers have contacted the Daily Post to point out the "blunder." One said: "Shouldn't the dragon be facing as it does on our flag? There's been so much money spent on the road, it's quite funny that this little detail has been forgotten." The Welsh Dragon that points into Wa les and celebrates the new and improved carriageway carriageway Noun 1. Brit the part of a road along which traffic passes in one direction: the westbound carriageway of the M4 2. on the A5117, once notorious for traffic chaos when three lanes bottlenecked. The other side of the bank has the design of an English lion. A Highways Agency spokesman said: "The design of the dragon was done with full consultation with the Welsh Assembly Government The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) (Welsh: Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru, LlCC) was firstly an executive body of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of the First Minister and his Cabinet from 1999 to 2007. . "The dragon and lion are stylised artworks based on Anglo-Saxon and Celtic themes to fit into that particular landscape." |
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