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Tuesday 23rd November 2010 • Issue 248 • UEA’s Independent Student Newspaper
UEA PROTESTER ARRESTED • UEA student arrested as fifty-two thousand students take to London’s streets in protest at higher education spending cuts. • NUS launch ‘Right to Recall’ campaign as they name Norwich South MP Simon Wright as their second priority target.
Protesters throw placards onto a bonfire as the National Demonstration descended into a riot outside Conservative party headquarters.
Danny Collins
Editor
A UEA student was among 64 arrested during the NUS Demo in London earlier this month, Concrete can reveal. The unnamed second year was detained by police following the occupation and vandalism of the Conservative party headquarters
at Millbank, Westminster by a group of protesters. A UEA alumnus was also arrested after gaining entry to the roof of the building, from which a fire extinguisher was later thrown into the crowd below by an Anglia Ruskin University student. Both individuals have been bailed until February, pending further investigation. The rioting at Millbank came
after the peaceful march of over 50,000 students through Westminster, who were protesting at the proposed rise in tuition fees. Violence erupted around the Tory HQ after a small minority of students, thought to number in the hundreds, entered the building and proceeded to smash windows and furniture. The cost of the damage is estimated to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
NUS President, Aaron Porter, was quick to condemn the violence, saying: “This was not part of our plan. This action was by others who have come out and used this opportunity to hijack a peaceful protest.” Earlier in the day, Porter had announced that MP for Norwich South, Simon Wright, was second only to Nick Clegg on the list of Liberal Democrat MPs that the
Geraldine Morizet
NUS would target if they did not honour their pre-election tuition fee pledge. Such a stance will concern Wright, who only gained a 310 vote majority in the three-way swing seat, and will be eager to appease the 20,000 students who reside in his constituency. For full coverage of the National Demo turn to pages 2-4 and 10.