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More than 150 arrested during London demo
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December 1, 2010, Wednesday
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POLICE said they arrested more than 150 demonstrators in London during yesterday's student protest against planned rises in university tuition fees.
A police officer and a woman protester were taken to hospital with head injuries in the capital while another protester injured his arm in a fall, the police said.
Thousands of students and school pupils protested across Britain yesterday against the planned increases, disrupting central London and putting strains on the coalition government.
Police said many of those arrested in the capital were among between 150 and 200 people who ignored requests to leave Trafalgar Square after the scheduled end of the protest.
They said 139 people were arrested for breach of the peace and seven for violent disorder.
Seven people were arrested earlier in connection with the protest -- two for public order offences, one for common assault, one for obstructing police and three for criminal damage, a police statement said.
That brought total arrests to 153.
Graffiti were daubed on Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square during the protest, according to news reports.
Police and demonstrators played a cat-and-mouse game outside parliament as protesters left the designated route of the demonstration, fanning out across central London. There were minor clashes with officers in riot gear.
Similar protests took place in other major cities, as anger about the Conservative-led coalition government's plans to almost triple tuition fees to up to 9,000 pounds (US$14,500) a year showed no sign of abating.
In fiery exchanges in parliament yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, leader of junior coalition partner the Liberal Democrats, defended the fee rise which his party had promised to vote against during campaigning for May's election.
A police officer and a woman protester were taken to hospital with head injuries in the capital while another protester injured his arm in a fall, the police said.
Thousands of students and school pupils protested across Britain yesterday against the planned increases, disrupting central London and putting strains on the coalition government.
Police said many of those arrested in the capital were among between 150 and 200 people who ignored requests to leave Trafalgar Square after the scheduled end of the protest.
They said 139 people were arrested for breach of the peace and seven for violent disorder.
Seven people were arrested earlier in connection with the protest -- two for public order offences, one for common assault, one for obstructing police and three for criminal damage, a police statement said.
That brought total arrests to 153.
Graffiti were daubed on Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square during the protest, according to news reports.
Police and demonstrators played a cat-and-mouse game outside parliament as protesters left the designated route of the demonstration, fanning out across central London. There were minor clashes with officers in riot gear.
Similar protests took place in other major cities, as anger about the Conservative-led coalition government's plans to almost triple tuition fees to up to 9,000 pounds (US$14,500) a year showed no sign of abating.
In fiery exchanges in parliament yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, leader of junior coalition partner the Liberal Democrats, defended the fee rise which his party had promised to vote against during campaigning for May's election.
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