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British tuition fees hike sparks outrage

A computer is thrown through a broken window of Millbank Tower, a housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
A computer is thrown through a broken window of Millbank Tower, a housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
A demonstrator attacks the windows of Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
A demonstrator kicks the windows of Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
Demonstrators occupy the foyer of Millbank Tower, a housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
Demonstrators attack the windows of Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest against an increase in university tuition fees in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
A demonstrator smashes the windows of Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
Thousands of protesting students gather outside the headquarters of Britain's Conservative Party in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP
A demonstrator kicks the windows of Millbank Tower, housing the headquarters of the Conservative Party, during a protest in London. Organisers said 50 000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9 000 pounds a year - three times the current rate. Photo: AP

Published Nov 10, 2010

University students demonstrating against the British government's plans to triple tuition fees forced their way into the headquarters of Prime Minister David Cameron's party. Television pictures showed students, some stripped to the waist and with scarves wrapped around the lower part of their faces, in the lobby of Millbank, a 1960s office building near the Houses of Parliament that houses the Conservative Party. Demonstrators had smashed windows at the entrance to the building and set fire to a pile of placards outside the office block.

Hundreds of workers in the building were evacuated after a fire alarm went off.

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