Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge and Sheffield, with street protests and university building sit-in protests taking place. 25 November – The government unveils an £8bn investment package for Britain's railways. 25 November – An icy blast hits North East Scotland with weather forecasts suggesting the rest of the country will be affected in the coming days. 27 November – Ed Miliband launches a two-year review of Labour Party policy, saying that the Party must move beyond New Labour and calling on activists to make it the "People's Party" again. 30 November – Plans are announced by the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore, to devolve major new financial powers to Scotland. December December – Kids Run Free, a youth and sport charity is founded. 1 December – Heavy snow and freezing temperatures hit most of the country, with road, rail and air services disrupted and thousands of schools shut. Gatwick and Edinburgh Airports are both closed. 1 December (c.) – Spanish-born Ana Patricia Botín becomes the first woman chief executive officer of a British bank, Santander UK. 2 December – England's bid to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup fails, having attracted only two votes; FIFA awards the tournament to Russia instead. 3 December – The Royal Navy aircraft carrier returns to Portsmouth for the last time before being decommissioned. The amphibious warfare ship is announced as her successor as the Royal Navy's flagship. 9 December Labour MPs Geoff Hoon, Stephen Byers and Richard Caborn are banned from parliament by the Standards and Privileges Committee after being found guilty of breaching the Code of Conduct rules on lobbying in the 2010 cash for influence scandal. They received five-year, two-year and six-month bans respectively. A second wave of protests in London by university students against increased tuition fees and reduced public spending on higher education take place in Whitehall, London. A Cenotaph war memorial and statue of Winston Churchill are vandalised, and a car transporting The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall is attacked. The coalition government win a vote in the House of Commons to raise the cap on university tuition fees in England to £9,000 with a majority of 21. 11 December – Scottish Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson resigns amid criticism of his handling of transport chaos brought on by recent heavy snow in Scotland. 12 December – Keith Brown is appointed as Scottish Transport Minister following yesterday's