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BBC News - Violence flares at Westminster as MPs debate fee rises
Student demonstrators are clashing with police in Westminster as MPs debate plans to raise tuition fees in England to £9,000 a year.
A police officer has been seriously injured in violent struggles between police and protesters.
Protesters who had forced their way into Parliament Square pressed against police lines and threw missiles.
Riot police are lined up behind metal barriers surrounding the Houses of Parliament.
A police officer has been taken to hospital with a serious neck injury after being knocked unconscious, say police.
Violent scenesThere are reports of six injuries as protesters fought to break through police lines.
A breakaway group of protesters throwing flares has been pushed back by officers.
The police now say they are containing protesters on the square.
In violent scenes, the BBC's Mark Georgiou says there have been injuries to both police and protesters near to Westminster Abbey.
Naomi Wolf: Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police
I see that Julian Assange is accused of having consensual sex with two women, in one case using a condom that broke. I understand, from thealleged victims' complaints to the media, that Assange is also accused of texting and tweeting in the taxi on the way to one of the women's apartments while on a date, and, disgustingly enough, 'reading stories about himself online' in the cab.
Thank you again, Interpol. I know you will now prioritize the global manhunt for 1.3 million guys I have heard similar complaints about personally in the US alone -- there is an entire fraternity at the University of Texas you need to arrest immediately. I also have firsthand information that John Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, went to a stag party -- with strippers! -- that his girlfriend wanted him to skip, and that Mark Levinson in Corvallis, Oregon, did not notice that his girlfriend got a really cute new haircut -- even though it was THREE INCHES SHORTER.
