Protesters takes to Edinburgh streets for march against education cuts

THOUSANDS of protesters are expected to march through the streets of Edinburgh today against cuts to education in Scotland.

They will join marchers from all over Scotland in conjunction with the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

The event will begin at 11am at East Market Street near Waverley Station and march along Princes Street.

Organisers hope the event will send a message that cuts announced in the Comprehensive Spending Review this week will cause massive damage to the public sector and threaten economic recovery.

Ronnie Smith, general secretary of Scotland's biggest teaching union, said: "With the massive cuts to public services just announced by the coalition Government at Westminster, with the Scottish Government's own budgetary decisions imminent and with Holyrood elections just a few months away, we must keep up the pressure on all political parties to halt the devastating waves of cuts that are causing so much damage to Scottish education."