A second huge mass protest took place this morning as thousands of students occupied University buildings across the capital.
Hundreds of schoolchildren as young as 16 joined the protest walking out of lessons in the co-ordinated mass demonstration dubbed "Day X".
The youngsters are worried that they won't be able to afford to go to University, as new Conservative plans announced cuts to education and a tripling of tuition fees three weeks ago.
Liberal Democrat HQ and Downing Street were targeted by students today and despite a pre-planned major police presence outside key Government buildings in Whitehall, a police van was surrounded and vandalised. Protesters climbed on the roof, covered the vehicle with graffiti and smashed the windows.
So far more than 60 people have been arrested in connection with the occupation of Millbank and one student has been charged with violent disorder.
It is almost a revolutionary situation and this protest is only the second step of a wider campaign: anti-cuts and anti-fees groups are springing up at universities up and down the country.
Further demonstrations are planned in Brighton, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester.
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