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media captionThe Adam Street bonfire is located in the loyalist Tiger's Bay area
Two Stormont ministers have failed in a High Court bid to force police to assist in the removal of a contentious loyalist bonfire in north Belfast.
The bonfire is located in the unionist Tiger's Bay area, close to an interface with the nationalist New Lodge.
However, they have refused to help contractors remove the bonfire as they say that to do so would risk disorder.
The legal action was taken by Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon and Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey.
It was dismissed on Friday night after a judge refused an earlier, similar case taken by a New Lodge resident to direct Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers to intervene at the Tiger's Bay site.