Royal Black Preceptory to parade in Derry today

Members of the Royal Black Preceptory (RPB) will parade in Derry today

The Institution has 17,000 members – and a total of 370 preceptories, headed by 300 bands, will demonstrate at a number of venues across the North.

In Derry, members of RBP 143 and RPB 237, accompanied by the Burntollet Sons of Ulster Flute Band, will leave the old Waterside Health Centre on Glendermott Road at 8.30am and make their way along Craigavon Bridge, Spencer Road, Ferryquay Street, The Diamond, Bishop Street and Palace Street to Society Street where they will be join by members of RBP 113 and the Churchill Flute Band before returning along the same route to the Waterside from where they will leave for the main Co Derry demonstration in Portstewart.

On returning to the city at around 6.45pm, both bands will parade along May Street, Bond Street, Glendermott Road and Clooney Terrace where the Burntollet band will parade along Carlin Terrace to the old Waterside Health Centre while the Churchill band will proceed to Society along the same route as that taken in the morning.