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UK's PM urges 'calm' as thousands seek to thwart flashpoint N.Ireland parade

The Portadown District Loyal Orange Lodge return from the "Demonstration Field" along the Hamiltonsbawn Road in Armagh during the County Armagh 12th July parades 2009.
The Portadown District Loyal Orange Lodge return from the "Demonstration Field" along the Hamiltonsbawn Road in Armagh during the County Armagh 12th July parades 2009. © Wikimedia commons

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnam urged "calm" Sunday as thousands of people gathered in a Northern Irish town seeking to halt a contentious pro-British Protestant march from passing through a mainly Catholic and nationalist area for the first time in 28 years.

The tensions spiked after a court in the early hours of Sunday cleared the march by the Orange Order to go ahead.

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