Sunday 21 November 2010
cap on fees to £9,000 a year
Activists are angry at plans to raise the cap on fees to £9,000 a year, and most of their anger is directed at the Liberal Democrat MPs who pledged at election time to oppose any rise in fees.
52,000 people
An estimated 52,000 people, according to the National Union of Students, marched through central London to display their anger over government plans to
Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of London in a demonstration that spiralled out of control when a fringe group of protesters hurled missiles at police and occupied the building housing Conservative party headquarters.
Ministers and protesters acknowledged that the demonstration – by far the largest and most dramatic yet in response to the government's austerity measures – was "just the beginning" of public anger over cuts. Police, meanwhile, were criticised for failing to anticipate the scale of the disorder.
Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of London in a demonstration that spiralled out of control when a fringe group of protesters hurled missiles at police and occupied the building housing Conservative party headquarters.
Ministers and protesters acknowledged that the demonstration – by far the largest and most dramatic yet in response to the government's austerity measures – was "just the beginning" of public anger over cuts. Police, meanwhile, were criticised for failing to anticipate the scale of the disorder.
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