A St Piran’s Day parade took a somewhat political turn today as schoolchildren waved European Union flags while they walked through the Cornish capital.
Hundreds of people took part in the parade in Truro celebrating the patron saint of Cornwall, Saint Piran, and all things Cornish.
This year, with just 24 days to go until the UK is due to leave the European Union - although MPs are being asked to extend the exit date - some children waved both Cornish and EU flags during the celebrations.
Two large EU flags were also carried by adults at the event.
Cornwall Live broadcasted live from the parade on Facebook where readers asked “Who gave the children EU flags?”.
See more on the St Piran's Day celebrations in our live blog
It’s thought children from one school had them at the start of the procession. It appears the EU flags had been attached to the Cornish flags.
One parent told Cornwall Live their children, who attend a different school, were handed them mid-way through the parade.
See more pictures of the parade in the gallery below.
The referendum
In Cornwall, more than the national percentage voted to leave the Union, with 56.5% voting to go and 43.5% to remain. The turnout was 77% with 182,665 voting to leave and 140,540 voting to remain.
According to a recent survey, the majority of voters in Cornwall still want Brexit to happen.
Who is Saint Piran?
Gool Peran, as it is known in Cornish, honours the day dedicated to one of the patron saints of Cornwall, Saint Piran, who was also the patron saint of tin miners.
Born in the fifth century in Ireland, the fascinating tale of how St Piran came to be in Cornwall and the legend of how he discovered tin, is still one of the biggest celebrations in the Cornish calendar.
St Piran was a priest in the west of Ireland. He fell out with the king and they chucked him off a cliff and they tied a millstone round his neck.
He managed to navigate a lump of granite with a hole in it across the Celtic sea and landed in Perranporth.
He met a bunch of men with a fire and a load of black rocks all around. They lit the fire and they welcomed him.
As the fire got hotter the black stones got hotter and this white liquid starting to pour out of it. St Piran's noticed this and observing that chemistry he gave us smelting which allowed us to smelt tin. This is where the white cross on the black rock comes from.
He travelled around Cornwall - he was one of a huge community of saints. He spoke to the animals, he enjoyed a drink, he had a very deep ethical code and he wasn't afraid to stand up to authority.
Legend has it he lived till he was 200.
