Violent clashes escalate in Belfast after Orange Order march - latest A youth throws a chair over a burning car towards police in the Nationalist Ardoyne area of north Belfast Photograph: Peter Muhly/AFP/Getty Images 7.42pm: Henry's latest video footage of the violence shows the large riot police presence. 7.21pm: MP for North Belfast Nigel Dodds has tonight called on the Secretary of State to sack the Parades Commission, Henry McDonald writes. Speaking at the loyalist lines on the Crumlin Road, the Democratic Unionist MP described the Commission's decision to allow a republican counter demonstration to march along the Crumlin Road tonight after the Orangemen walked there as disgusting and stupid. 7.13pm: Henry says up to five petrol bombs have been thrown and unknown number of baton rounds fired. One man was arrested after the riot squad snatched him from a burning car, dragged him along the ground towards PSNI lines, then handcuffed him and put him into the back of a police Land Rover. 7.06pm: Henry says there are reports of police firing several plastic bullet rounds during the latest disturbances in Brompton Park. 7.00pm: Henry McDonald says that PSNI riot squad officers have now deployed two water cannon "to push republican rioters deeper into the Ardoyne area." He adds: "The police on the front line are still coming under sustained attack. Meanwhile the violence from the loyalist side of the divide appears to have subsided. 6.52pm: Here's some of the Press Association's latest reports on the violent clashes in Ardoyne. A burning car was driven at police lines but intercepted by a PSNI Landrover. Black smoke billowed from the BMW car, wafting in the light breeze over the heavily protected officers, punctured by intermittent jets from the water cannon. According to the PSNI, officers have spoken to the organisers of the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective (republican) parade and, due to the risk to public safety, they have agreed not to come out on the Crumlin Road, near the scene of the riot. Around 700 to 800 people are taking part in the parade. Republican marchers and loyalist protesters threw bottles and fireworks at each other outside the Ardoyne shops, while jeering at each other. Police hemmed the parade in for a while, then agreed to let it through. Lines of police holding shields separated nationalists from loyalists after letting the republican parade pass. Marshals ushered the marchers, a group of men and women, through quickly. Bottles and other missiles continued to be thrown at police from the direction in which the parade proceeded, at the scene of the earlier trouble and the burning car. 6.43pm: Henry McDonald suggests that the violence continues to escalate. The violence on the Crumlin Road has brought in the loyalists with bricks and bottles being thrown between the two sides. Although this first sectarian was brief it has now resulted in a three way stand off between police, loyalists and republicans. 6.35pm: This is David Batty and I'm taking over the live blog for the rest of the evening. You can follow me on Twitter @David_Batty. My colleague Henry McDonald has just filed this update: Now it's the turn of the loyalists to be pinned back by PSNI riot squad officers. As we wait for a planned republican demonstration on the Crumlin Road dozens of PSNI personnel dressed like Ninjas. In their dark uniforms and balaclavas are holding a large group of Protestants back it's very tense. 6.00pm: Henry has filed some video of the police water cannon in action. The cannon was used several times to drive back a small group of people throwing stones and other missiles at police. 5.58pm: The BBC is tweeting that the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective - or GARC - parade will not now take place due to the escalating violence - and in particular a car that has been set on fire and poses a safety risk. 5.50pm: Henry is now saying the situation has turned into a full-scale riot. We are now entering a dangerous phase in which there are two rival protests - one loyalist, one republican - taking place in the next few minutes on either side of the divide along the Crumlin Road. 5.42pm: Don't accuse our reporters of not getting their hands dirty - Henry's been hit by flying debris amid the water cannon on the scene. He's alright though. Here's his latest video. 5.36pm: Henry McDonald says Crumlin Road is wreathed in acrid black smoke as police pin 200 youths in Brompton Park: The air is filled with water from the police water cannons spraying rioters to the entrance to the Ardoyne district. Riot squad officers continue to come under a bombardment of bottles, stones, bricks and golf balls. Youths from their early to late teens have then thrown pieces of a hijacked car they set on fire during ongoing disorder on the sectarian interface. Up to 10 police Land Rovers, an armoured water cannon and dozens of police officers in riot gear wielding batons and shields have penned in about 200 youths into Brompton Park. Across the road there are several hundred Ulster loyalists. Henry McDonald 5.31pm: Henry McDonald, our reporter on the scene, says a hijacked car has been set alight and driven into police lines at Brompton Park. "Police responded by ramming the car with a landrover and dousing the hijacked vehicle with water," he says. 5.26pm: Sky News reporter David Blevins has tweeted a picture of the scuffles, showing smoke rising behind a heavily armoured police vehicle. He's added a sardonic reference to Northern Ireland's 2012 tourism campaign. 5.18pm: The Police Service of Northern Ireland is calling the scuffles "localised disorder." A spokesman told the Press Association news agency: Parade (Ardoyne) has passed peacefully and in accordance with the Parades Commission determination. However police are dealing with some localised disorder at Brompton Park and Balholm Drive and are liaising with community representatives. Scuffles break out as Orangemen parade past republicans and residents from the Ardoyne district of north Belfast Link to this video 5.09pm: Scuffles have broken out in Belfast between nationalist residents and hundreds of police in riot gear following the passing of a controversial march by Ulster loyalists this afternoon. Up to five police Land Rovers, at least three water cannon, a spotter plane and a helicopter have been deployed over the Ardoyne shops in the north of the city. The massive security operation was put in place to ensure that three Orange lodges were able to march up the Crumlin Road, past the Catholic district. The Orangemen abided by a ruling from the Parades Commission - the body adjudicating on controversial marches in Northern Ireland - that they must return via the route before 4pm on Thursday afternoon. A rival march by local republicans and residents of Ardoyne is expected to take place around 5.30pm as armed police officers maintain a huge presence in the area to keep rival republican and loyalist crowds apart.