Jubilee-free Rye pub upsets residents with ‘offensive’ poster

While many in Rye were putting up flags and bunting to celebrate the happy occasion, the Landgate pub, which displays an inn sign of Queen Elizabeth 1, was declaring itself a Jubilee Free Zone and putting up a picture in its window of the Queen with a prohibitive red line across her face.

Some angry readers contacted the Observer to say that it amounted to “treason”