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Today in The Times – Animal Aid win BBC apology

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

Racing debate – head to head with the lobbyist

Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler went head to head with leading horse racing lobbyist, Brough Scott, in The Guardian newspaper, Saturday April 3, 2004. Read their exchange below.

Posted 01 Apr 2004

A hiding to nothing

Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning

Posted 31 Mar 2004

Making mistakes – apology from the BBC

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

Broadcasting bias – letter of complaint to the BBC

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

Back in the dock – BUAV launches Cambridge challenge

Following the joint Animal Aid/NAVS High Court challenge to John Prescott, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has launched its own important case in which the government and Cambridge University are again...

Posted 01 Jan 2004

Dolly debts – PPL Therapeutics count the cost

PPL Therapeutics, the company behind Dolly the Sheep and other cloning techniques, has put itself up for sale. Chief executive Geoff Cook and four other directors have resigned.

Posted 01 Dec 2003

Primate experiments – a doctor speaks out

The following powerful endorsement of the growing scientific opposition to experiments on primates appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 30th September 2003. It is written by the Telegraph's leading health writer, Dr James Le Fanu.

Posted 30 Sep 2003

Unnatural animal acts a turn off

A Coalition of leading animal welfare groups supported by millions people have attacked Granada and ITV over a new animal reality TV programme.

Posted 23 Sep 2003