A very belated update…

Finally! Some 3 months (and several hundred website tweaks) later, I’m going to shamelessly blow my own trumpet and mention a very happy night at the 2011 UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards where I won the News Photographer of the Year category. Read on to see the winning pictures…

Police officers make a desperate attempt to hold back rioting students at the Millbank Tower Conservative Party headquarters as a protest against an increase in tuition fees grew violent and a large number of demonstrators successfully stormed the building.

A man holds up a poster of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei after running onto the artist’s sunflower seeds installation at the Tate Modern to protest against his imprisonment by the Chinese authorities.

A police officer has his face covered in paint after being hit by a paint balloon as a protest against alleged corporate tax evasion outside Topshop grew unexpectedly violent.

Larry the indesicive Downing Street cat is ‘encouraged’ inside number 10 by a police officer after keeping the doorman waiting.

A youth smashes a bus stop in Whitehall, central London, during one of a number of violent protests against an increase in tuition fees.

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