Tuition fees

The Met Police release new images from the student protests – including one seeming to show a man with a petrol bomb – in a bid to find those responsible for violence. Simon Israel takes a look.

Sixth-former Edward Woollard is jailed for two years and eight months for throwing a metal fire extinguisher from the roof of the London Millbank during violent student fees demonstrations.

Plans to make it easier for poorer students to study at university under the new tuition fees regime have been criticised by the body representing UK universities.

A record number of students have already applied to university before Christmas in an attempt to secure early places, new figures show.

Senior Liberal Democrat Simon Hughes, who abstained in the tuition fees vote, tells Channel 4 News why he accepted a government post encouraging poor students to attend university.

Students turn against the Liberal Democrats and embrace Labour as opposition mounts to the Coalition Government’s plan to treble university 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”.

Join the #c4news live blog as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attends a bail hearing in London and students protest over plans to raise university tuition fees.

More student protests are taking place – this time against plans to axe the Education Maintenance Allowance. It comes as police release new photos and footage from last week’s demonstrations.

After the tuition fee protests in London end with injuries on both sides and damage to a series of buildings, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson writes that violence was inevitable.

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.

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.

Our Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, says that nine police officers and probably scores of protesters have been hurt in the continuing demonstrations in Parliament Square.

Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson says there has been an angrier, louder mood at today’s tuition fees protests which have turned violent.