Clashes as UK parliament votes for student fee rise

Protesters attacked government buildings and damaged a car carrying Prince Charles after parliament voted on Thursday to raise fees paid by university students in a vote which divided Britain's coalition government.

The move to shift the burden of paying for university teaching from state to student is the first test of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition's intent to push through austerity cuts as it tries to erase a record budget deficit.

It provoked fury from young protesters who have staged a series of demonstrations in recent weeks. Analysts say the seven-month-old coalition will hold together, but could come under increasing strain as cuts bite harder next year.

Some protesters attacked a limousine taking Charles and his wife Camilla to a London theater. The car was spattered with paint and a window was cracked, but the couple were unhurt.

Protesters laid siege to the finance ministry close to parliament, battering open a door and chanting "we want our money back" as they clashed with riot police on the threshold of the building.

They later smashed shop windows in Oxford Street, one of the main shopping streets in the capital. Mounted police were used earlier to try to disperse protesters outside parliament.

Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the violence.

"It is clear that a minority of protesters came determined to provoke violence, attack the police and cause as much damage to property as possible," he said.

"It is shocking and regrettable that the car carrying the Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) and the Duchess of Cornwall was caught up and attacked in the violence," he added.

The clashes were the worst political violence in London since a mass riot in 1990 over a local tax which helped to end to Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher's decade in power.

Analysts said there could be more to come as hundreds of thousands of public sector workers lose their jobs.

"There will probably be serious injuries if not deaths if this level of protest is replicated in the new year by militant unions," said Carina O'Reilly, European security analyst with IHS Jane's.

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Twenty-two people were arrested and 10 policemen suffered injuries. A Reuters photographer was taken to hospital after he was hit in the face by a rock.

Police said tens of thousands joined the protests, including groups of hooded and masked youths who were at the center of the violence. Police had warned that, like in previous student demonstrations, violent groups could hijack the rallies.

The lower house of parliament approved the plan by a majority of 21 votes, with 27 members of the coalition parties voting against and a handful abstaining.

Two Liberal Democrats and a Conservative government aide resigned their posts over the issue.

"It's the lowest government majority of 2010 and lower than you have thought a couple of weeks ago," said Philip Cowley, professor of parliamentary government at the University of Nottingham. "It's not the first revolt and it certainly won't be the last."

Analysts say further divisions over spending cuts will make life in the government difficult for the left-leaning Lib Dems.

The Lib Dems campaigned against higher fees before the May election, wooing many young voters. Their opinion poll rating has halved since the election and leader Nick Clegg has been vilified for his changes in policy.

Students protested in their thousands across the country against the higher fees, arguing they will price out the poor.

The government has made cutting a record peacetime budget deficit its priority. Departments have to cut spending by some 19 percent over the next four years.

Under the tuition fee changes, universities in England will be able to charge students fees of up to 9,000 pounds ($14,100) per year -- almost treble the current limit.

(Writing by Keith Weir; additional reporting by Peter Apps, Isabel Coles, Stefano Ambrogi, Keith Weir, Adrian Croft, Karolina Tagaris and Michel Rose)

Even the freezing cold couldn’t goout the Lights of Love.

Even the freezing cold couldn’t goout the Lights of Love.

Culpeper Regional Hospital’s 28th annual Lights of Love celebration warmed the hearts of the community wednesday as the event signaled the official start of the holiday season and again proved why Culpeper is such a giving community.

Lights, purchased by residents, lit up the tree outside CRH’s emergency room and served as a beacon of generosity during the holiday season. Proceeds from the purchase of the lights helps fund purchases by hospital auxiliary.

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“It’s an excellent way to begin the holiday season and it’s as much about that as it is about the donations,” CRH President and CEO Lee Kirk said. “It’s a way to honor those that are still with us and remember those that aren’t. Our community is very generous with us and we appreciate that stewardship.”

Every year the Culpeper Regional Hospital Auxiliary dedicates the tree to a group at the hospital and this year the emergency department was honored for their service. According to Kirk, the ER saw more than 28,000 patients this year and wait time has been reduced while customer satisfaction has risen.

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Joan Proctor, the Lights of Love chairperson, also recognized the good the donations will do for the hospital.

“The money you contributed to these lights will go toward the purchase of a piece of equipment for our new radiology department,” Proctor said. “Each of us has friends and neighbors who travel out of town for radiation treatments. After the first of next year, they won’t have to.”

A crowd of more than 50 people huddled in the cold to see the lights and listen to St. Luke’s Lutheran School’s choir mark ring in the season with Christmas carols.

“It’s the kids,” Kirk said. “Every year we have a very good response from the community. We very much appreciate the support, for as cold as it is, it’s very nice.”

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Ringing the opening bell at NASDAQ the Monday after Thanksgiving was Diane Irvine, CEO of Blue Nile. You could be excused if you missed the not-so-subtle timing of her appearance on Cyber Monday: along with Irvine was Perry Whan who proposed to his girlfriend Michaela Maloney with a Blue Nile-designed engagement ring as the studio cheered. (She said yes).

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Blue Nile, of course, is the online website dear to the hearts of many hopeful girlfriends: on it one can design an tungsten engagement ring from a wide choice of stones, settings and prices. Its main shoppers, though, are men  - a group to whom Blue Nile has taken considerable pains to target.

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That list of top ten en unique gagement rings on the homepage? It was put together with the befuddled male shopper in mind. So were the mobile tools the site launched in recent months, including a new iPad app.
Blue Nile hit pay dirt with the latter a number of days ago when it sold a $300,000 ring through the app.

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A new survey by IDC Retail Insights dubs such individuals mobile shopping  “warrior wannabies” (or moderately connected individuals) and mobile shopping“warriors” (or hyper-connected individuals). This group, it projects, will account for 29% or $130 billion of the $450 billion the National Retail Federation predicts U.S. consumers will spend this holiday season.

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It is my seventh wedding anniversary today, December 31st, worth my memory as always. Seventeen years ago, my wife and I had our wedding ceremony in one of the biggest state-owned restaurants in the city of Ganzhou, which is my hometown.it's that time i ringed my wife's finger with a gorgeous tungsten ring ,she was so excited when i worn the ring on her finger ,a happy simle on her face when i speak out that i will love you forever. There were lots of our friends, relatives and neighbors attending our grand wedding dinner with my elder brother and elder sister toasting around together with us from table to table.

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After the wedding dinner in the evening, we were arranged by my elder brother to attend a dancing party in Gan Nan Guesthouse, also a large state-owned hotel as well as a first-class hotel in the city. We had a lot of fun at the party, dancing together till after ten in the evening. Then we got home.

I will never forget that day when I finally finished my single life with the establishment of my own family. I felt so excited and happy then, a feeling never-to-be forgotten.We have been living together happily though simply. I love my wife as much as my wife loves me. I appreciate my wife a lot for her great contributions to the family.

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Today I put down one of my most unforgettable moments in my early stage of life, when I was young, as a way to show my great gratitude to my loved wife, a nice gift--a polished tungsten ring to her.tungsten stand for our love which will never battered. i do believe that.

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