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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/20-arrested-over-spending-cuts-demo.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The president of the National Union of Students Aaron Porter is escorted to safety by police after being surrounded by demonstrators in Manchester" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-20-arrested-over-spending-cuts-demo.jpg" alt="The president of the National Union of Students Aaron Porter is escorted to safety by police after being surrounded by demonstrators in Manchester"/></a></p>
<p>Twenty arrests were made by police as a splinter group left an organised rally against public spending cuts and marched to a city centre.</p>
<p>Up to 4,000 protesters had gathered peacefully in Manchester on Saturday to hear claims from union leaders that the Government was &#8220;betraying&#8221; young people, but trouble erupted when several hundred later broke through police lines.</p>
<p>Those arrested &#8211; all men &#8211; were detained on suspicion of various public order offences.</p>
<p>Two officers suffered minor injuries, one was bitten.</p>
<p>Police said the breakaway group was intent on inciting violence and causing damage as intelligence suggested a number were armed with chefs&#8217; knives and one man arrested possessed razor blades.</p>
<p>They said the rally organisers &#8211; the TUC, NUS (National Union of Students) and UCU (University and College Union) &#8211; had dissociated themselves from the city centre unrest and said they were nothing to do with the organised demonstrators.</p>
<p>A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: &#8220;The final number of arrests following yesterday&#8217;s demonstrations is 20.</p>
<p>&#8220;Thirteen were arrested for section five public order offences, six for breach of the peace and one for obstructing a public highway.&#8221;</p>
<p>No further details of the police operation would be released, he added.</p>
<p>The protest, aimed at highlighting the effects of Government spending cuts on young people, started in acrimony when NUS president Aaron Porter withdrew as a speaker when he was surrounded by angry demonstrators who called for him to quit his post.</p>
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