The 2015 Aintree Grand National meeting has claimed its second victim. Balder Succes was destroyed on Sunday morning, two days after a serious fall in Friday’s Melling Chase. The 7-year-old gelding injured his right shoulder...
Posted 12 Apr 2015
A supporter of national campaign group, Animal Aid, has just scaled the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square to wrap the famous ‘Gift Horse’, by Hans Hacke, in a green banner that reads: Horse Racing: You bet,...
Posted 11 Apr 2015
Furless mice injected with human cancer cells Rats chemically poisoned for six months Mice genetically modified to develop cancer
Posted 31 Mar 2015
Animal Aid has long called for a ban on the use of the whip in racing. Newly published research gives further weight to our argument and brings us closer to our goal.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
A document published yesterday (March 26) by the government has confirmed its total lack of commitment to reducing the suffering of animals in laboratories.
Posted 27 Mar 2015
An article that appeared in the Guardian Weekly has strongly criticised the use of mice as ‘models’ of human disease. Interviewing scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School, it describes how...
Posted 20 Mar 2015
The coalition government has today (March 12) announced a pitifully weakened version of its promised ban on animal testing for household products.
Posted 12 Mar 2015
Rolling Star became the second horse to die at the 2015 Cheltenham Festival when he fell heavily at the last obstacle of what was, at times, a furiously fast hurdle race on Wednesday afternoon.
Posted 11 Mar 2015
Just one week before the much-hyped Cheltenham Festival, a new Animal Aid report reveals that equine fatalities at the Gloucestershire course occurred so regularly during 2014 that there was a 50 per cent chance of...
Posted 03 Mar 2015
Jockeys riding on British racecourses broke the rules relating to use of the whip no fewer than 586 times in 2014. Twenty-two riders offended five or more times, and one jockey, Jack Duern, broke the...
Posted 23 Feb 2015