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Grand master to monitor Orange parade with the police

Scotland's most senior Orangeman will forego his usual role heading up his organisation's biggest day of the year to observe proceedings with the police.

Ian Wilson, Grand Master of the Orange Order in Scotland, believes spending the day with senior Strathclyde officers watching tomorrow's rally in Glasgow will provide a valuable and instructive perspective on how parades impact on policing and communities.

Mr Wilson will attend a briefing in the morning of the parade and is then expected to accompany officers maintaining public order.

It follows an invitation from the Scottish Executive after officials from the previous administration attended the Glasgow Battle of the Boyne' parade in an observational capacity in the past two years.

The move is being seen as an indication of further modernisation within sections of the Orange Order, with Mr Wilson being a long-time vocal critic of hangers-on' at the organisation's parades.

Full story at The Herald.