To kick off the day of action we have an image taken by Jon Duveen of a projection onto the main doorway at Great St Mary’s Church in the centre of Cambridge last night.
Terry Conway has sent some great pictures (see below) from the demonstration in Glasgow yesterday.
These photographs from Mike Tucker show those assembling in Birmingham for the demonstration there.
More pictures from Birmingham.
Andy Richards is in Brighton today and has sent these pictures in.
Protest outside JP Morgan about fossil fuels led by a number of organisations including Another Europe is Possible.
Images from the London protest including a sighting of the new banner
The march is well on the way in Birmingham.
Jon Duveen in Cambridge reports over a thousand people on the demonstration there.
More images from Brighton.
A selection of tweets from the day of action.
The live blog has ended.
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Already the backsliding begins. ITV news is reporting that the Government has changed one point in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. They have accepted that academies will retain their ‘freedom’ to set their own pay scales for teachers. So the criteria in the School Teachers Pay and Conditions document will only apply to teachers in Local Authority schools. Why have the Government climbed down on this issue? It’s not as if this is a major financial problem for academies. But what will be the next change/climb down by the Government? Will academies be exempt from the National Curriculum? Will Local Authorities be able to build schools according to the needs of their communities or will all new schools, as at present, have to be academies?