Fourteen SPEAK campaigners who took part in a peaceful protest against the proposed Oxford University animal labs have walked free from court after the District Judge condemned Thames Valley Police for unlawfully stopping their protest...
Posted 01 Jun 2007
Animal Aid will be visiting Tunbridge Wells on 26 May to launch its unique and exciting Transform Your World tour. The innovative trailer exhibition is the centrepiece of the 30 year anniversary celebrations, both for...
Posted 23 May 2007
After a year of preparations and hard work, 26 May will see the launch of our unique and exciting Transform Your World tour. The innovative trailer exhibition is the centrepiece of the 30-year anniversary celebrations,...
Posted 22 May 2007
A new report, published this week by Animal Aid, describes a series of painful and often lethal laboratory experiments conducted on race horses, mountain ponies and other equines. Many of the experiments are directly, or...
Posted 16 May 2007
As noted by The Independent (24 April 07), the Countryside Alliance’s Countryside Rocks concert has run into a spot of bother as one of their scheduled performers, Robert Wells – the world-famous pianist, singer and...
Posted 24 Apr 2007
National campaign group Animal Aid this week launches Race Horse DeathWatch, a web-based initiative that will make public every on-course Thoroughbred fatality.
Posted 04 Apr 2007
National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Racing is facing a crisis with seven horses known to have died on racecourses in just one week. The latest four victims all perished on Monday at Wincanton, Somerset.
Posted 20 Mar 2007
The value to human medicine of laboratory research using chimpanzees is being evaluated in a series of major studies. The first paper finds that such experiments contribute ‘little, if at all, to tangible human clinical...
Posted 20 Mar 2007