On Friday 24th February at 1pm, campaigners opposing the cull of Canada geese on Lake Windermere will hand in a 2,000-strong petition to the Lake District National Park Authority (on Oxenholme Road, Kendal) calling on...
Posted 20 Feb 2012
Queen’s Guitarist Joins the Campaign to Save Windermere’s Geese
Posted 15 Feb 2012
Tamoxifen (Paragraphs in italics are extracted from CRUK’s letter) ‘Tamoxifen is one of the most successful anti-cancer drugs in current use, and it is estimated to have saved the lives of over 400,000 women worldwide…’...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
In reply to a recent enquiry from an Animal Aid supporter, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) offered three examples of ‘how the use of animals in our research has resulted in life saving scientific progress’, and...
Posted 14 Feb 2012
In a letter to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) , the Badger Trust has outlines the legal challenge it will pursue if Defra does not abandon its plans to kill badgers.
Posted 10 Feb 2012
It is hardly surprising that both pandas at Edinburgh zoo have been sick with colic – no doubt as painful and distressing a condition in pandas as it is in children. The male, Yang Guang,...
Posted 01 Feb 2012
Campaigners on the Isle of Dogs have persuaded Tower Hamlets Council to stop the cull of wild monk parakeets. The Council has now formally requested that Defra stop its cull, a step that the government...
Posted 27 Jan 2012
Despite having forced racing’s regulator to twice dilute the new whipping rules introduced on 10 October 2011, jockeys’ representatives meet tomorrow (Friday, 20 January) with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in what appears to be...
Posted 19 Jan 2012
Today’s national newspapers carried (often uncritical) reports of the birth of two macaque monkeys, whose genetic material originates from six ‘parents’. Known as chimeras, for each monkey, diverse parent cells were brought together to create...
Posted 06 Jan 2012
At a packed meeting last night (19 December 2011), Oxford councillors voted against plans to introduce a bylaw that would allow companies to operate horse-drawn carriages in the city centre.
Posted 20 Dec 2011