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Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant calls for protesters and politicians to "abide by the law" following a decision by the independent Parades Commission to allow an Orange Order march to take place in Drumcree. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm not going to gainsay the courts. It was litigated at great length yesterday afternoon
00:05and through to 2.30 in the morning, which is why a lot of us haven't had much sleep
00:08and lots of people in Northern Ireland won't have had much sleep because they'll be very
00:12anxious on one side of the argument or other. My view is that, number one, people should
00:18abide by the law, and that includes elected politicians. Everybody should abide by the
00:23law. There's a formal protest process under the legislation. If you want to have a protest,
00:29you have to seek permission for it, and nobody's done that, so there's an unlawful
00:34protest going on at the moment. But this is primarily a policing matter now. I want to
00:39get to a as peaceful a resolution of today as we possibly can, and I know that that's
00:44what the police are working on.

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