UK Protest

(APTN) - Several thousand British students protested against government plans to triple higher education tuition fees. (Nov 24, 2010)

Credits: Field produced material of students violently attacking police vans

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1. Aerial shot of protesters and police in Whitehall

2. Aerial of protesters at entrance to King Charles Street (close to Downing Street), police pushing them back 

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3. Protesters behind wire barrier, pushing it down, one man throws piece of barrier over fence

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4. Aerial shot of protesters pushing against police line in Whitehall

5. Protesters surrounding Cabinet War Rooms on King Charles Street, some climbing up onto window sills and balustrades

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6. Protesters on Whitehall, some hopping over low plastic barrier

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7. Various of protesters attacking police van with sticks and rocking it violently

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8. Aerial of protesters pushing against police line ++MUTE++

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9. Various of injured female protester being carried away by police, trying to get through crowd carrying woman

10. Aerial of protesters pushing against police line, projectiles thrown, zoom-in to police treating injured man lying on pavement ++MUTE++

11. Aerial of protesters surrounding police van, zoom-in to demonstrator standing on van and other protesters climbing into van ++MUTE++

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12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop, student protestingagainst rise in university fees

“The cause that we’re here for today isn’t about you know, ‘I hate the police’ and ‘I want to burn the police’ and ‘I want to destroy everything that they represent’; it’s about the university fees and talking about how education should not be a business.”

13. Student protesters, some on top of bus shelter

 

STORYLINE

Several thousand British students protested on Wednesday against government plans to triple higher education tuition fees, two weeks after a similar demonstration in London sparked a small riot.

College and university students across the country held marches and sit-ins to oppose the decision to increase university fees to 9-thousand pounds (14-thousand US dollars) a year, a key plank in the government’s deficit-cutting austerity measures.

In central London, university students and younger pupils in school uniforms marched from Trafalgar Square towards the Houses of Parliament, chanting “no ifs, no buts, no education cuts.”

Some climbed on top of bus shelters, while several attacked an empty parked police van, attempting to smash the windows and scrawling graffiti.

There was a heavy police presence, with hundreds of uniformed officers on duty.

Police have admitted they were unprepared for the violence that broke out during a November 10 protest by more than 50,000 students in London, when demonstrators stormed the building housing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.

An 18-year-old British student pleaded guilty on Wednesday to throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof of the high-rise building during that protest two weeks ago.

It narrowly missed police officers standing below.

Edward Woollard admitted one count of violent disorder. His lawyer said Woollard was “very sorry for his actions.”

District Judge Nicholas Evans said Woollard would be sentenced later. He faces a maximum of five years in prison.