As the Coalition government reaches its first anniversary, The Independent has today (6 May 2011) reported that Downing Street has blocked plans by ministers to ban the use of wild animals in circuses. It is...
Posted 06 May 2011
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) plans to kill the 100-150 monk parakeets who live in the wild in Hertfordshire. Two years ago, Natural England added both the monk parakeet and...
Posted 03 May 2011
In a move that could lead to the end of the use of the whip in horse racing, Towcester racecourse in Northamptonshire has announced that, from October, it will ban jockeys from beating horses in...
Posted 22 Apr 2011
The Grand National continued its tradition of killing horses today when Ornais broke his neck and Dooneys Gate broke his back in the gruelling 4 and a half mile event. Their deaths mean that 20...
Posted 09 Apr 2011
To mark Horse Racing Awareness Week, national campaign group Animal Aid has posted a street billboard in Liverpool city centre that reveals the lethal reality of the world-famous Aintree Grand National meeting.
Posted 08 Apr 2011
The first day of the Grand National Meeting of 2011 claimed the life of 6-year-old bay gelding Inventor.
Posted 07 Apr 2011
Anne, the 59-year-old arthritic elephant, has been moved to her permanent new home at Longleat Safari Park.
Posted 04 Apr 2011
Eighty per cent of British racecourses saw at least one horse fatality over the last twelve months.
Posted 03 Apr 2011
In a move that surprises no one, Elin Jones – the Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs – has announced that a badger cull will go ahead in Pembrokeshire. This is despite the overwhelming opposition to...
Posted 10 Mar 2011
In the same week that Animal Aid publishes the results of a damning investigation revealing widespread, repeated and flagrant breaches of the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) rules on whipping, racing’s regulatory body has shown its...
Posted 04 Mar 2011