Search results for ‘Student protests’
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FactCheck: How tough can the police get with the rioters?
Curfews, water cannon, troops on the streets. Are any of these practical possibilities in the coming days? FactCheck looks at what the police can and can’t do to get the riots under control.
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Pink Floyd star’s son jailed for 16 months
The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for going on the rampage at a student fees protest, where he told friends: “We’re going to break all the laws.”
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Royal Wedding: ‘Just a small family affair’
“We’re supposed to have a small family affair,” jokes Prince William, as a million people throng the streets – and two billion tune in around the world – for his wedding to Catherine Middleton.
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Royal Wedding: pageantry vs security
As the ceremonial military get ready for the Royal Wedding, thousands of police officers begin a London-wide operation to make sure there are no threats to security.
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Tuition fees: all universities to charge at least £6,000
Every English university has applied to charge at least £6,000 tuition fees, as Channel 4 News learns only eight staff will police whether they are also improving access to justify their charges.
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Most universities plan £9,000 tuition fees
As the deadline arrives for universities to tell the Office for Fair Access what tuition fees they aim to charge, a Channel 4 News map shows that the majority are looking at the maximum of £9,000.
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Ouattara: Financial questions and ‘the bleeding of Africa’
President Alassane Ouattara’s history in the government of Ivory Coast is marked by financial questions and “the bleeding of Africa”, a leading Ivorian academic tells Channel 4 News.
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NUS President must lobby to ‘widen access to university’
As the National Union of Students announces its new President, Channel 4 News hears from young people who say more must be done to widen access to university following the hike in tuition fees.
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Labour MP backs anti-cuts group after hundreds of arrests
As senior Labour figures scramble to distance themselves from anti-cuts protesters involved in disorder in London this weekend, one left-winger is refusing to toe the party line.
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Arizona shooting suspect charged with murder
As 22-year-old Jared Loughner is charged with murder, America falls silent to pay tribute to those killed in Saturday’s Arizona shootings. Sarah Smith asks whether the attack was inevitable.
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Snow chaos costing UK economy £1.2bn a day
Britain’s economy could be drained of more than £1bn a day as freezing temperatures persist and more snow falls, leaving retailers counting the cost of the disruption.
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Union leader warns of co-ordinated strike action
There was fighting talk from the country’s largest trade union today when its newly elected leader warned of widespread and co-ordinated industrial action in the new year, writes Victoria Macdonald.
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Peers vote by majority of 68 to raise tuition fees
The House of Lords vote by a majority of 68 in favour of government’s controversial plans to raise tuition fees. Protesting students tell Channel 4 News “this is just the beginning”.
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Tuition fees vote reveals Tory strains
Yesterday’s tuition fee vote produced the predicted Lib Dem divisions – but it also shone a new light on splits in the Conservative Party, says Gaby Hinsliff.
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Criminal investigation into attack on Charles and Camilla
As Scotland Yard launches a criminal inquiry into the attack on Prince Charles and wife Camilla, one former officer tells Channel 4 News that the Prince may have overruled advice not to make the trip.