MORE than 500 people marched through East Oxford and the city centre this afternoon for a mass protest against Government cuts and tuition fee rises.

Students, pensioners and public sector workers joined a noisy but peaceful two hour demonstration through Oxford.

The march started at Manzil Way Gardens in Cowley Road at 12:15pm and finished more than 45 minutes later at Bonn Square where trade union chiefs and councillors spoke.

Protesters marched down Cowley Road past the Plain Roundabout and up High Street before staging a five minute sit down on the road at its junction with St Aldates.

About 50 protested inside Barclays Bank in Cornmarket Street.

It comes after students and protesters occupied Oxford University's Radcliffe Camera library on Wednesday and Thursday.

Protester Moritz Kaiser, 17, a pupil at the European School in Culham, hit out at reforms that will let universities charge £9,000 a year for tuition fees.

He said: “It’s just disgusting the way the Government think they can do this to students without any consequences.”

The Government has proposed cutting £81bn from public spending over the next four years in an attempt to slash the £950bn national debt.

Police spokesman Victoria Bartlett said no arrests were made.