Major Glasgow city centre roads to close as Orange walks take place this weekend
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SEVERAL major roads across Glasgow are set to close as hundreds take part in Orange walks this weekend.
Rolling road closures will be in place as a total of nine marches will bring the city centre streets to a standstill.
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Hundreds are set to take part in Orange walks across the city on Sunday
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Walks, with up to 200 people, will pass through the city centre, east end, west end, southside and north Glasgow this Sunday.
Thousands of marchers have already taken to the streets during Orange walks this month.
On May 17, Old Firm fans came face-to-face when an Orange Walk paraded by a hotel packed with Celtic supporters ahead of their side's title street party.
Hoops fans were surrounded by police as some jeered and gestured and others used their mobile phones to film 2,500 marchers file past the building to take part in the VE Day 80th anniversary.
This weekend, several marches will meet in the Cathedral Square area on June 1.
Around 780 members are expected to take part, with some walks feeding into other larger walks.
It is estimated that 200 will march from Kinning Park to Cathedral Square via the city centre at 12.15pm.
The route will head down King George V Bridge, George Square and Nelson Mandela Place.
Busy streets including Hope Street, West George Street and High Street will also be brought to a standstill during the procession.
In the east end, around 200 marchers will head from Brook Street at 2.30pm and onto Cathedral Square.
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There will be closures on on London Road, Duke Street, High Street and Castle Street.
Around 180 people will head from Corn Street along Garscube Road, West Nile Street and Blythswood Square with rolling road closures in place.
They will continue along West George Street, onto George Square and onto High Street, and onto Cathedral Square from 2.15pm.
In the west of the city, 150 Orange Order members will head from Haugh Road to Cathedral Square.
Traffic will be stopped on the busy Argyle Street just after 12.15pm with the procession heading down St Vincent Street, Pitt Street, West George Street, George Square, and on to High Street.
More members will gather in Possilpark at around 1.30pm and walk to Corn Street to meet another march.
Around 120 will walk along roads including Possil Road and Garscube Road.
A march starting at 2pm from Maxwell Road will join another group at Centre Street.
Pollockshaws Road, Bridge Street and Nelson Street will all be closed as 80 marches parade through the streets.
Around 75 members will head from Beith Street to Haugh Road at 11.30am.
And 80 marchers will start from Millarbank Road to Corn Street at 1pm.
More than 45,000 members of the Orange Order are set to take to Scottish streets this summer.
The busiest day is expected to be July 5, when approximately 30,365 marchers will take to Scottish streets, with the earliest parade starting at 7:10am in Coatbridge.
A total of 93 separate parades are planned for that day.
It comes as the Orange Order demanded an 'immediate meeting' with the First Minister after female members were allegedly targeted by online trolls.
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