UK - Apprentice Boys Parade goes ahead

(10 Aug 1996) T/I: 10:25:52 Protestants marching in the religiously divided city of Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland on Saturday (10/9) raised the Union Jack on a section of the city wall where their "Apprentice Boys" procession had been banned. The marchers were taking part in an annual celebration of a 17th-century victory over a Catholic king who laid siege to Londonderry after apprentices slammed the city gates, preventing his troops from entering. Despite the ban on marching along the section of the wall overlooking a Catholic area, the British flag was raised on the ancient city wall with the permission of police, who were out in force and backed up by British soldiers as thousands of members of the Apprentice Boys organisation and their supporters converged on the walled city. The Apprentice Boys, the city's main Protestant fraternal order, did not attempt to breach the barricades as they marched into the city for a wreath-laying at a war memorial, followed by a service at St. Columbus, the Anglican cathedral. SHOWS: LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND, UK 9-10/8: 9/10: mini cannon being fired; cu of barbed wire and then demonstrators; police standing by; police riot shields; bonfire raging; cu of bonfire; people standing in street; ws of bonfire; 10/8: gvs of royal ulster constabulary (ruc) police vehicles lined up in street; police standing around armoured vehicle; armoured vehicles driving down street; two apprentice boys let through barred section of city wall to raise their flag; apprentice boys erecting their flag; ws of city walls with two flags raised; ws of march in progress; marchers coming into town square; apprentice boys laying wreath; giving salute and bagpipes play; cu of wreath and pull back to ws of memorial; ws of marchers standing to attention; marchers heading off to st colombus cathedral; marchers entering cathedral; cu of cathedral and pan down to marchers lined up; vs of cathedral; 3.15 vision Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...