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Student Protest in London
nn - 10.11.2010 23:57
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/video/2010/nov/10/student-protest-london-millbank
Student protest over fees turns violent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/10/student-protest-fees-violent
Protesters smash windows and get onto roof of Tory HQ as estimated 50,000 attend London rally
*Student protests: A demonstrator kicks in windows at Millbank. Student protests: a demonstrator kicks in windows at Millbank. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
Protesters smashed windows and waved anarchist flags from the roof of the building housing the Conservative party headquarters as the fringe of a vast rally against university funding cuts turned violent.
The scale of the London protest defied expectations, with an estimated 50,000 turning out to vent their anger at government plans to raise tuition fees while cutting the state grant for university teaching.
Protesters who broke off from the main route of the march occupied the lobby of the building at 30 Millbank, in central London, where police wielding batons clashed with a crowd hurling placard sticks, eggs and bottles.
Activists who had masked their faces with scarves traded punches with police to chants of "Tory scum". The exchanges were recorded by broadcasters' helicopter-mounted cameras and protesters' mobile phones.
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