Scotland Yard is facing legal action over claims that officers "falsely imprisoned" and assaulted schoolchildren during a tuition fees protest in London last month.
11.12am: A student has pleaded guilty to throwing an empty fire extinguisher off the roof of 30 Millbank during the tuition fees protests outside the Conservative HQ earlier this month.
Mansfield reveals he is to leave partial retirement to act for Alfie Meadows, 20, who suffered head injuries during a tuition fees protest last December.
The teenager who sent a fire extinguisher crashing "terrifyingly close" to police officers during a tuition fees protest in November was jailed yesterday as the judge said it should send a message that such violent protest would not be tolerated.
If there ever was a time for a revival of SU politics and student representation, it would have been during the tuition fee debate and we all know how comprehensively that battle was lost.
The Sun also benefited from a tipoff about Edward Woollard, an A-level student who was arrested in 2010 for throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of the Conservative party headquarters in Millbank during the tuition fees riot.
This has prompted the PCC to contact Jody McIntyre, a disabled man who claims he was badly treated during the tuition fees protests, to ask whether he wishes to make a formal complaint about Littlejohn's Daily Mail column.
9.30pm: In case you want to know about the ructions during the tuition fees protest, that live blog is up and running again amid reports that Prince Charles's car, which was driving along Regent street, was attacked by a crowd of protesters.
The Metropolitan Police (Met) contained schoolchildren, some aged just 11, for hours in a "kettle" during the tuition fees protests in London, a court heard.
A student suffered bleeding to the brain when he was struck by a police truncheon during the tuition fees protest, his mother has alleged.
