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Trimble wants end to Parades Commission

The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has once more called for the removal of the Parades Commission in the North.

Mr Trimble said that solving once for all the problematic issues surrounding certain parades is in everyone's interests and every bit as important as reaching a satisfactory political settlement.

He was speaking after his party launched its considered response to the Quigley report which made recommendations about how the Commission should be replaced.

The UUP leader said bouncing from summer to summer with the potential for community confrontation simply cannot go on.

He said Sir George Quiqley had not got it all together in his review, as his party had pointed out to the British government in their response to the report.

However he said Sir George clearly agreed with him that it was now firmly established that the Parades Commission must be removed and replaced with a fair and impartial rights-based determining body.