The Home office is this week accused by Animal Aid of operating a 'permissive regime that allows an unacceptable degree of self-regulation by animal researchers who are sanctioned, literally, to maim, poison and kill'.
Posted 11 Jan 2006
Animal Aid welcomes news that Darley Oaks guinea pig farm in Newchurch, Staffordshire, intends to close at the end of the year.
Posted 01 Aug 2005
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill - which contains new measures aimed at protecting animal research establishments - received Royal Assent on Thursday 7th April 2005.
Posted 01 Apr 2005
This article by Norna Hughes appeared in The Times, August 18, 2004. Norna Hughes, Solicitor, acted on behalf of Animal Aid and the National Anti-Vivisection Society in our High Court challenge.
Posted 01 Aug 2004
On March 31, Portsmouth South MP, Mike Hancock, asked an apparently innocuous parliamentary question of the Home Secretary. 'What recent research', Hancock wanted to know, had his Department 'commissioned and evaluated on the efficacy of...
Posted 01 Jun 2004
Animal Aid statement in response to the government's plans for a new 3Rs centre
Posted 21 May 2004
In October 2003, the European Commission presented its latest proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for the testing of chemicals. This is part of the EU's plan to test thousands of substances that have...
Posted 01 May 2004
The BBC governors have rebuked the makers of Radio 4's Today programme and ordered them to apologise to Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler for the way it edited a recorded interview with him that was...
Posted 01 Apr 2004
BBC Radio 4's Today programme broke the news in January that Cambridge University was abandoning its plans for a massive primate research centre. This followed years of campaigning against the project - at the centre...
Posted 01 Mar 2004
The BBC's Today radio programme, in breaking the news that Cambridge University was abandoning plans for a massive primate centre, helped set the tone for the press and broadcast coverage that followed. The tone was...
Posted 01 Feb 2004