Unionists in 'parades crisis' talks

The Democratic Unionist Party is meeting the British government this week to discuss what it sees as a parades crisis following the postponement of the Orange Order’s annual Whiterock parade in Belfast at the weekend.

The order put off the parade yesterday and mounted a protest march in the loyalist Shankill Road area after the Parades Commission ordered that participants would not be allowed to march along around 100 metres of the nationalist Springfield Road and would have to divert through the site of a disused factory.