On March 31, Portsmouth South MP, Mike Hancock, asked an apparently innocuous parliamentary question of the Home Secretary. 'What recent research', Hancock wanted to know, had his Department 'commissioned and evaluated on the efficacy of...
Posted 01 Jun 2004
Animal Aid statement in response to the government's plans for a new 3Rs centre
Posted 21 May 2004
Professor William 'Twink' Allen, who conducts invasive experiments on horses at the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association's Equine Fertility Unit based at Cambridge University, claims that the Home Office has bowed to pressure from animal rights protesters...
Posted 06 May 2004
In October 2003, the European Commission presented its latest proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for the testing of chemicals. This is part of the EU's plan to test thousands of substances that have...
Posted 01 May 2004
Statement from Animal Aid on the 2004 Grand National
Posted 03 Apr 2004
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
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
Major report shows that whipping horses reduces their chances of winning
Posted 31 Mar 2004
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
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