Police in the North say they intend to prosecute participants in a banned Orange Order march in Co Derry on Friday evening.
Ignoring warnings from police that the march was illegal, eighty people marched from Killowen Street to the Old Town Bridge in Coleraine, a police spokesman said. When officers blocked the march from proceeding to the town centre officers were pelted with "several missiles".
The gathering was eventually dispersed at 10.30 p.m., the spokesman added. He said CCTV footage was being examined and prosecutions of those involved would follow.
There were minor disturbances in north Belfast last night when a march passed through the flashpoint Ardoyne area of the city. The morning feeder parade passed off peacefully, but in the evening nationalists and loyalists threw missiles at each other. However the disturbance lasted only a number of minutes.
The July 12th celebrations were markedly calm this year, following a trouble-free gathering at Drumcree near Portadown, Co Amragh last weekend.
