Finishing touches - Gail Russell works on the patriotic stamps. Submitted picture
A company is putting its stamp on the nation after being asked to design a series of patriotic postage stamps.
The first series released today - St Andrew's Day - designed by Silk Pearce, in Priory Street, Colchester, for Royal Mail, focuses on Scotland.
Over the next four years, the national identities of England, Northern Ireland and Wales will be celebrated with stamps showing the country's flag, its patron saint and a national landmark.
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