(14 Jun 2013)
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1. High shot from Irish-Catholic side of peace wall looking over to houses on British-Protestant side
2. Cluan Place (Protestant area), blocked by ten-metre wall separating it from Catholic area
3. Large banner saying "Loyalist Cluan Place" with British flag
4. Wide of Cluan Place with British flags flying
5. Mural on house stating that the street will be "always British"
6. British flag with Queen's face on it, flying from home on Cluan Place
7. Elaine Chambers placing little British flags in flowerpots outside her home
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elaine Chambers, Protestant resident:
"The wall's up and people can't get to you. It's a safer way of living. People don't know what it's like, living on an interface area. You never know what's coming over, or what's going to happen. So the thought of that fence going down, that means people can just be on the top of it. No. Definitely not."
9. Wide of street of Catholic side, with Irish flags on lamp posts
10. Close up of Irish flag on lamp post
11. Catholic houses in shadow of peace wall
12. House with republican paramilitary mural
13. Mural stating "understand the past and build a better future"
14. James Creaney walks past his house in Clandeboye Drive in Catholic area, with wall in background
15. SOUNDBITE (English) James Creaney, Catholic resident:
"In my opinion, you shouldn't have a wall dividing people. OK, they may have different ideas from me and they may have different ideas from a lot of people. That shouldn't be necessary to put a wall up."
(Q: So you'd like to see the wall go?)
"Oh aye, aye (yes)."
16. Wide of estate where Creaney lives, with wall in background
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17. British Prime Minister David Cameron arriving at news conference with the First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Cameron, British Prime Minister:
"And I absolutely want them to succeed in the ambitious and laudable plan to rid Belfast of the so-called peace walls, 41 walls and 13 gates at the last count."
19. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE:
Northern Ireland leaders committed themselves on Friday to a plan that would see Belfast's controversial 'peace wall' demolished within the next decade.
The barrier - ten metres (30 feet) high in places - separates Irish-Catholic and British-Protestant communities in some of the city's most divided neighbourhoods.
But the plan, endorsed by British prime minister David Cameron, was greeted with limited enthusiasm by residents who live in the shadow of the wall.
In the Protestant stronghold of Cluan Place, bedecked all year round with British flags and loyalist murals, resident Elaine Chambers said the wall was essential to protect her community.
"The wall's up and people can't get to you, it's a safer way of living," said Chambers, 44, who lives on the street with her two daughters.
Over the wall from Cluan Place lies Clandeboye Drive, a Catholic neighbourhood.
The area has fewer outward signs of community allegiance, although Republican murals make clear which side of the divide it's on.
Many on the Catholic side agree the wall must stay, arguing that without it, they would feel more exposed to harassment.
But James Creaney, 67, who has lived in Clandeboye Drive for more than thirty years, said it was time to consider pulling the barrier down.
"You shouldn't have a wall dividing people," he said. "OK, they may have different ideas from me and they may have different ideas from a lot of people. (But) that shouldn't make it necessary to put a wall up."
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