Furious students whose campus was caged in by their uni without warning tore down the fences in protest last night.

It came after weeks of growing anger and resentment that young people had been lured to universities across the country, at a cost of thousands of pounds, only to find lectures had moved online and that their halls of residence were anything but Covid-secure.

The two-metre metal barriers went up on Thursday at the University of Manchesters Fallowfield campus as a security measure to help avoid the mixing of households, the uni told HuffPost UK.

But the measure which was not explained to students until the fences had gone up was the final straw for students, who protested on Thursday evening and pulled the barriers down.