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22/06/2012
Peace Concert Goes Ahead Despite Security Alert
Despite a security alert in the UK's 2013 City of Culture last night, the Peace One Day concert went ahead, with thousands of people revelling in Ebrington Square.
The opening event of the London 2012 festival was hosted by Hollywood star Jude Law, who alongside Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gillie explained the concept of the campaign for peace across the world, starting with a realistic target of one day at a time.
Derry/Londonderry band The Wondervillians kicked off the concert, which opens the run-up to this summer's Olympics in London, and were followed by Pixie Lott, Newton Faulkner, Guillemots and Imelda May.
Mr Law said: "This is a fantastic city to host such an event and I hope it send out a clear message. If I got you to look back at the origins of the Olympics, it was always about truce as well and that's why it seems so apt that Peace One Day, as an organisation, is working alongside the 2012 Cultural Olympiad."
Crowds who danced to the beat of the music stars may have been unaware that not far off, army technical officers were removing a suspicious device from the Rossdowney Road area.
Some houses were evacuated after the discovery of a pipe bomb in an Montgomery Close home at about 10.30pm.
DUP MLA William Hay told the BBC: "We all are trying to move on, but here are people who are trying to drag us back into the past."
(NE)
The opening event of the London 2012 festival was hosted by Hollywood star Jude Law, who alongside Peace One Day founder Jeremy Gillie explained the concept of the campaign for peace across the world, starting with a realistic target of one day at a time.
Derry/Londonderry band The Wondervillians kicked off the concert, which opens the run-up to this summer's Olympics in London, and were followed by Pixie Lott, Newton Faulkner, Guillemots and Imelda May.
Mr Law said: "This is a fantastic city to host such an event and I hope it send out a clear message. If I got you to look back at the origins of the Olympics, it was always about truce as well and that's why it seems so apt that Peace One Day, as an organisation, is working alongside the 2012 Cultural Olympiad."
Crowds who danced to the beat of the music stars may have been unaware that not far off, army technical officers were removing a suspicious device from the Rossdowney Road area.
Some houses were evacuated after the discovery of a pipe bomb in an Montgomery Close home at about 10.30pm.
DUP MLA William Hay told the BBC: "We all are trying to move on, but here are people who are trying to drag us back into the past."
(NE)
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