14-year-old boy held in petrol bomb probe

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Police today arrested a 14-year-old boy over the throwing of a petrol bomb during a student protest.

The arrest comes a day after Scotland Yard released images of a hooded figure running across Parliament Square and throwing a flaming bottle across a crowd of protesters.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Police today arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with the throwing of a flaming object in Parliament Square during the student protest of 9 December 2010.

"The boy is being questioned in a south London police station."