In Pictures: the London protest

A continually updated photo gallery of the events in Parliament Square as they happen. At 5.15 members of Parliament voted to increase tuition fees to a cap of £9000 per annum by a majority of 21 votes

A quiet beginning to a day of planned protest near Whitehall

by Varsity News

This article is 15 years old

Thursday December 9 2010, 4:09pm

'Apathy is dead' as protestors veer off from the NUS march into Parliament Square

Numbers build outside the Houses of Parliament on the day of the crucial vote

Riot police appear on the scene to deal with an increasingly agitated crowd

Parliament Square is rapidly surrounded by police

Protesters burn placards and benches as the violence escalates

Quick thinking students narrowly avoid a police kettling manouever

Unusual scenes as the police are caught on the run

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