Thousands of UK students protest tuition fees hike

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Tens of thousands of students demonstration noisily through London on Wednesday beside plans to triple university tuition fees, and a number of tried to occupy the head office of the governing Conservative Party, in the main street protest yet against the government's far-reaching severity measures.

Organizer said 50,000 students, lecturers and group were representative against plans to raise the cost of study at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year — three times the present rate.

Hostility flared as a handful of people damaged windows in a high-rise building that houses traditionalist headquarters, as others lit a bonfire of placard outside the building.

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