Students scuffle with police over fees

DEMONSTRATORS scuffled with police in central London yesterday when thousands of students and school pupils protested across Britain against government plans to raise university tuition fees.

Small groups of protesters hurled placards at officers and others attacked a police van near parliament in central London. Police said three people had been arrested in the capital for violent disorder, which many students condemned as undermining their cause.

Young people staged walkouts at universities, schools and colleges in a national day of action at the Conservative-led coalition government proposals to almost triple tuition charges to up to £9,000 (€10,600) a year.