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Tuition fees - Torridge MP Geoffrey Cox on Twitter yesterday "Excellent speech by Vince Cable in support of his tuition fees proposals in the debate today." Today at 4pm Bideford students who attend Petroc in Barnstaple will be demonstrating against the proposed increase in university tution fees outside Nick Harvey's office in Barnstaple.

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By alx_supertram at 09:19 on 10/12/10

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    I don't know what all the fuss is about with the tuition fees. As far as I understand it the families who can not afford to pay for the tuition fees are given a grant. Am I wrong? Is this just the middle classes whingeing about having to pay up out of their more than adequate salaries, just like the fuss they are making about having £25 a week taken away from them in child benefit when they ear £40,000 a year?

    By grannygreen at 11:03 on 10/12/10

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    I witnessed the student protest in Barnstaple yesterday.
    "What do we want?" they shouted in loud voices
    "A subway, I'm starving" came the reply from one particularly stupid looking student - (don't worry love, you can always work there once you flunk college)

    I do not believe that half of the students have actually done their research and know what they are protesting about. They are just jumping on the bandwagon and having a day out of college in the process.

    Nothing in life is free and that is a lesson well learned.

    By howardgem at 21:42 on 10/12/10

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