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British students once again rally against the increase of tuition fees. Yesterday afternoon, November 24, tens of thousands of young people flooded the Trafalgar Square in London. Protesters planned to reach the headquarters of the Party of the Liberal Democrats, but got into the police cordon, which held until nightfall. Hundreds of students and school children held in cold weather, spent many hours in the open air, blocked by police cordons. By evening, not withstanding the demonstrators covered their faces from the cameras started to break windows in the building of the Treasury and almost completely burnt down a bus stop next to the ministry.

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2. Yesterday, thousands of demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon blocked the street in Whitehall, to close access to the building of the British Parliament. In the photo: the participants of protest crushed the bus stop next to the ministry.



3. The reason for the protests was the fact that the British government plans to increase the threshold value of training is three times that amount to 9000 pounds per year.



4. Students in Bristol went from classes to join protests against the increase of tuition fees, which take place in London.



5. The action began on Wednesday afternoon, when thousands of students, schoolchildren and opponents just budget cuts gathered in Trafalgar Square and then marched down Whitehall past Downing Street to the building of the Treasury.



6. Later, the protesters planned to march to go the nearby headquarters of the Party of the Liberal Democrats. However, about three o'clock in the afternoon the police started to use the so-called tactics kettling (from the kettle - «boiler») students and anyone else who was at the scene of the rally, pushed into a narrow snout to the Treasury, which held in a few hours.



7. Students handed out water, but on the street all the shops were closed, and transportable toilets were available only to the police. Several people made attempts to break into shops and other buildings on the street.



8. The clashes injured two police officers and six protesters. It is reported that eight demonstrators were arrested



9. protesters and journalists found themselves trapped for hours in a police cordon shouted: "Let us out of here!»



10. About two-night news agencies reported that on the street in Whitehall, where the ministerial buildings and where the meeting took place, still remain hundreds of students.



11. In addition to the London riots as demonstrators were seized buildings of many British schools, including Oxford library Bodleyna, University of Plymouth, Warwick, Birmingham, Bristol, as well as the building of University College London and the University of Essex.



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