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One Person Taken To Hospital After 'Falling From Bonfire' In Down

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Hundreds of bonfires are expected to be set alight in the North tonight,

A man's been taken to hospital after falling from a bonfire in County Down.

It happened at around 10 O' Clock last night in the Portaferry Road area of Newtownards.

Hundreds of bonfires are expected to be set alight in the North tonight, as loyalists mark the 12th of July.

Bonfires are lit in some unionist areas on 11 July to kick off the Twelth celebrations.

They mark the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant King William III - also known as King Billy and William of Orange - defeated Catholic King James II.

Bonfires were lit to welcome - and guide - William.

 

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