A vigil has held outside Charing Cross Hospital this afternoon after student Alfie Meadows underwent a three hour operation to relieve pressure and bleeding on his brain after being hit by police at the demonstration in parliament square.

The Middlesex University student fell unconscious on the way to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, where he underwent a three-hour operation to save his life.

Meadows, a participant in yesterday’s fee protests, was part of a large group that had been “kettled” — rounded up indiscriminately and confined by police. When he attempted to leave the kettle with a group of friends — including two sympathetic professors — he suffered a blow to the head from a police baton.

According to his mother, who was also present at the protest, he is now conscious and able to speak, though she said he is expected to be hospitalized "for quite a while."

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Kingston Guardian said:

A university professor was prevented from taking to hospital a student who suffered serious head injuries at last night's tuition fees protest.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has begun an independent investigation into an allegation the 20-year-old was hit by a poice truncheon.

Peter Hallward, a Kingston University philosophy lecturer, said police refused to let him accompany Alfie Meadows out of the police cordon around Parliament Square.

Below is a pic from the vigil/demo held today and a few pics of other injuries.

Alfie Meadows was one of the 44 protestors who were taken to hospital by the ambulance service yesterday. A much larger number were injured during the day which saw mass kettling by the police and violent attacks early on by police trying to stop students and protestors assembling in Parliament Square, and then from leaving the Square.As reported earlier a student from Manchester had her collar bone broken by police, and there were various reports of unconscious people and other hospitalisations due to head injuries. Press were also directly targeted by some police officer for beatings and some officers went after cameras trying to smash them.