Little at Large: After cakes, Colombia and costumes, charity sees red

By Mathew Little, Third Sector, 23 July 2008

Alvaro Uribe, the president of Colombia, has apologised after it was revealed that one of the rescuers of hostage Ingrid Betancourt was wearing the Red Cross symbol.

Misuse of the symbol is a serious matter for the charity: in the UK, it has forced supermarket Asda to remove the cross from a cake and demanded that actor Ken Morley (aka Reg Holdsworth from Coronation Street) take scissors to the nurse's uniform he was wearing in a pantomime...

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