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Students target Con-Dems to save their loans
Hundreds stage action outside Whitehall offices

Students confronted Con-Dem ministers yesterday over their plots to sell their debt at "mates rates" to City sharks.

A noisy rally was staged at the doors of Vince Cable and David Willetts's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in opposition to the government's latest privatiation.

Students also made their point loudly outside Downing Street as they marched through London from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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