Probe after attack on royal car

BRITISH officials defended the country’s security practices yesterday amid a flurry of questions over the royal family’s safety after rampaging student protesters attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.

The chief of the Metropolitan Police pledged to investigate after protesters set upon the heir to the throne’s Rolls Royce as it drove through London’s busy West End on Thursday night. The royal couple was attending a charity event at London’s Palladium theatre.

Students poured into central London to protest the trebling of university tuition fees as lawmakers debated and passed the hikes in Parliament.