28th January 1969
Student Anne Warren clambered back to earth on Monday night (27-1-69) after keeping the Union Jack flying over Rhodesia House in London for more than seven hours. She was met with a rebuke from police – and a hug from her 25-year-old friend, Ian Middlehurst, who recently spent 17 hours on the same flagpole with a friend making a similar protest against Ian Smith’s illegal regime. Miss Warren, a 22-year-old architecture student at University College, London, refused an offer of a drink after she was helped to safety by a Rhodesia House official. But she used a cloakroom in the building to wash and put on make-up. Then she left and said: "I’d do the same climb again if I thought it would do any good." Miss Warren shinned up the pole at 9.50 a.m. she secured herself to the Union Jack. And she stayed there, despite pleas from police and firemen, until 5 pm.
PICTURED: Anne Warren, back on the ground.
