Staff and students from the University of East Anglia have staged demonstrations on campus over its current financial turmoil.

The UEA is facing a financial black hole requiring it to find £45m of savings in the next three years.

It has already found £6m in savings through a voluntary severance scheme, but its new vice chancellor David Maguire was unable to rule out compulsory redundancies.

And the new boss was greeted on his first day on campus with protests calling for any potential job cuts to be scrapped.

Rowan Gavin, who works in the UEA library, said: "People are now living in fear for their jobs and we all feel kept in the dark about the situation."

Meanwhile, union bosses have reacted angrily to comments from Prof Maguire that the university has too many staff.

UNISON UEA branch secretary Amanda Chenery-Howes said: “It’s worrying that David Maguire can only come up with the same destructive solutions as the failed former leadership.

“Instead of trying to change direction he wants to slash staff numbers, further damaging what UEA can offer students.

"It’s hard to see how more people will be attracted to enrol at the husk of a university Maguire wants to create.”