The student protests very nearly defeated the coalition less than six months into its rule.
10.10pm Up to 1,000 people are being held on Westminster Bridge in a police kettle. The protesters includes school students, some as young as 15. They are singing songs and chanting, but are being held surrounded by riot police on the middle of the bridge with no indication when they will be allowed to leave.
Local residents living in temporary accommodation heckled Tory housing minister Grant Shapps yesterday in Broadwater Farm, Tottenham, north London, over attacks on housing.
Sixth form students began a 24-hour sit-in at Camden School for Girls, in north London at 9am this morning, Wednesday.
Manchester University march and occupation Manchester students have now booked seven coaches to the national demonstration in London tomorrow.
Tube workers in the RMT union’s London Underground Engineering branch tonight passed full support for the student protests – and donated £250 to the Education Activist Network (EAN). The workers also called for the student protests to be part of wider and deeper resistance by workers, including a general strike.
Students from occupied Newcastle university, Northumbria university and local sixth forms occupied the main Council Chambers of the Newcastle Civic Centre today.
A forum on "How Can We Unite to Stop the Cuts" hosted by the Right to Work (RTW) campaign last Saturday saw important moves towards more effective and united work.
