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2006

Sep Dominatrix to surprise punters at Kempton Park - Activists will invite punters for a whipping
Victory for Animals! Wyevale takes ethical step to stop the sale of animals
EXPOSED! Racing industry's 'systematic horse exploitation, injury and destruction'
Aug Leading organisations unite for a ban on primate experiments
Shoot industry tax cheats deserve Al Capone treatment
July Cheap Shots - Shooting industry tax 'irregularities' exposed
Broken promises: government presides over rise in vivisection
Shock EU Move - Cruelty free cosmetics at risk
June Dominatrix to surprise punters at Royal Ascot - Activists will invite punters for a whipping
Animal Aid's Commons Challenge to Race Industry
New NHS funded study shows up animal testing shambles
Horse race industry in turmoil after Derby death
May "Tally ho" rock relics under fire
Tony Blair - The Vivisectors' Friend
Apr The Great British Hypocrisy - Shipping Calves to Veal Crates Overseas
Tax authorities close in on shooting industry cheats
Vivisection Act is 20 years old... Unhappy Anniversary
Cheltenham horse death cover up
Tyneandthyneagain becomes 32nd aintree victim in a decade of carnage
Avian flu: call for immediate halt to importation, breeding and release of game birds
Aintree claims yet another equine victim
Avian flu - Defra must resist hysteria-led bird massacre
TGN1412 disaster must mark the end of animal tests
Grand National: Call for 2006 race to be the last
Mar New Horse Death Research Shows Odds Stacked Against Grand National Runners
With the Grand National imminent... Horse racing cruelty forced onto the political agenda
The fishing industry: Greatest welfare scandal of our time?
Avian flu bloodbath imminent? Animal Aid demands answers from DEFRA
Human Drug Trial Catastrophe Proves Once Again Animal Tests Cannot Be Trusted
Call for Cheltenham Festival boss to resign after nine horses die
Cheltenham Racing Festival: Two horses dead in the first two days of racing at Britain's most lethal course
Animal Aid accuses government of callousness and hypocrisy
Another horse dead at Britain's most lethal course
'The Lady in Black' Visits Cheltenham Race Course to Mourn Hundreds of Equine Victims
Feb Animal Aid and West Kent College Competition - Winners Announced
Animal campaign group slams shooting lobby's call for increase game bird production in the face of bird flu
Bird flu : Call for immediate halt to breeding, importing and release of game birds
Bird flu outrage! Tons of poultry faeces dumped on summer wine village
Jan Defra squirrel 'control' plan a 'cynical and vicious scapegoating exercise'
Bird flu crisis must not repeat foot and mouth slaughter
Government accused of failing to regulate animal research

2005

Nov Record rise in experiments on mutant animals
Countryside Alliance fails ASA truth test
Man or Mouse : New report reveals the futility of GM animal research
Shooting industry at war with itself over gamebird battery cages
Campaigners slam EU Parliament for backing animal poisoning tests
Madonna gives up bird shooting... Now get to work on your Guy
Kick off the festive season at the Animal Aid Compassionate Christmas show!
Heart Specialist calls on Government to revoke dog researchers' licences
Ahead of crucial EU parliament vote... New report exposes consequences of animal safety testing
Oct Bird flu crisis - Government urged to ban gamebird production
Bird flu crisis - Call for ban on pet fair fairs and gamebird release
Animal Welfare Bill betrays gamebirds and exotic pets
Animal Welfare Abuses to blame for Bird Flu
New public money for ruddy duck slaughter an 'insane, massively expensive and vicious enterprise'
Sep Ethical Student website launched
Investigation exposes gamebirds' battery cage nightmare
Aug Environment Body Attacked for Sponsoring 'Polluting' Angling
Jul Wyevale under pressure over animal sales
Jun

Animal Aid challenges aid agencies to abolish animal donor schemes
The spectre of death comes to Ascot
Dominatrix Derby

May

Response to Nuffield Council on Bioethics report
Eat This! Teenagers make ground-breaking new video investigating the meat industry

Apr

Animal Aid in Oxford city centre to commemorate World Week for Laboratory Animals
Lib Dems are most animal-friendly party at Westminster
Aintree event claims another equine victim
Animal Aid slams Grand National
Civil Liberties lawyers slam Government animal rights crackdown

Mar

Animal Aid response to proposed inquiry into primate research
For the fourth year running, three horses die at the Cheltenham Festival
Cheltenham: country's deadliest course claims two more victims
More than 370 horses raced to death every year
Shocking conditions of factory-farmed pheasants exposed in new online film
Animal Aid calls on Lords to protect freedom to protest

Feb March is Veggie Month!
Giant 'fish' leads protest against Bedford aquarium
Animal Aid statement on government animal rights 'crackdown'
Jan

Shooting lobby group joins Animal Aid in condemning intensive bird farms
Oxford debate heats up!

2004

Dec Animal Aid welcomes critique of Animal Welfare Bill
Nov The biggest and best cruelty-free Christmas Fayre ever!
Animal Aid condemns MRCs 'callous' research policy
Day of protest against Japanese dolphin slaughter marked in London
Monkey madness at Oxford - Mad Science Awards 2004
Oxford injunction an attack on peaceful protests
Oct Film 'censor' under attack
Britain's largest bird market cancelled
Call for whip ban at Jockey Club race
Sep Fowl play!
Oxford University: A catalogue of shame
Animal Aid welcomes fox hunting ban
Statement on the 2003 animal experiment statistics
Statement on the global water shortages
National Cage & Aviary Exhibition is declared illegal
Aug Organisations join forces to fight exotic pet fairs
Jul

Cambridge High Court ruling: a bad day for democracy
Government 'clamp down' on animal rights activists
High Court challenge to Government's approval of Cambridge monkey centre
Oxford research centre builders back out
No extra cash for 'historic' welfare bill
Statement on the new Animal Welfare Bill
Broxbourne Council to crackdown on reptile dealers

May

Statement in response to plans for a new 3Rs centre
New markets report exposes disease catastrophe in waiting
Who is the greatest ever vegetarian?
Failure of Professor Allen to obtain licence to conduct cloning experiments on horses

Apr

Call for Grand National ban after another year of 'carnage'

Mar

A hiding to nothing
New survey shows that many hospitals fail veggie patients

Feb Time to vote for the greatest ever vegetarian
Jan

Cambridge monkey lab plans withdrawn before case gets to court
High Court challenge to government's approval of Cambridge monkey Centre

2003

Dec

Animal Aid calls for shotgun ban on Vinnie Jones
Parrot fever could affect visitors to NEC
Giant illegal wild bird market takes place at the NEC

Nov

Birds of a Feather stars flock together to save wild birds
Cambridge monkey reseach centre gets go-ahead
Countdown to the cruelty-free fayre

Oct

Cambridge monkey labs in doubt
Cambridge head asked to abandon plans for monkey lab
Animal rights campaigners back farmers' dairy blockades
Uni officials face 'deception' charge over monkey centre

Sep Anti-cruelty lesson for royal princes
Unnatural animal acts a turn off
Statement following meeting with the Animal Health Trust
Aug

Horse experimenters win Mad Science Awards
Ruddy protests come to Scotland

Jul

Victory! Wholesale stores end lobster sales
Lib Dem spokesman calls for universities to end monkey experiments
National campaign launched against giant wild bird market

Jun Animals: war's hidden victims
Public says no to primate research
May

Good news for reptiles as zoo proposal is scrapped
Game industry complaint backfires
The vegetarian world comes to Devon

Apr

Animal groups slam local reptile exhibition
Shame of top-table conservation groups
Call for Grand National ban after another tragic death
Aintree meet claims first equine victim
New poll shows strong public opposition to Grand National

Mar

Riding for a Fall: The crisis at the heart of horse racing

Feb

Ruddy duck statement
Redditch council wins praise from animal groups
Veggie parents stand firm against hostility from doctors
Veggie parents stand firm against hostility from teachers
Veggie parents stand firm against family hostility

Jan

Climax of historic monkey lab inquiry

2002

Dec

Is Brian Aldridge on the fiddle?
Lundy rat slaughter sparks outcry
Cambridge primate inquiry moves into final phase
Animal experiments dissected at Cambridge Primate Lab inquiry
Medical case against monkey lab

Nov

Cambridge University fail to offer any justification for primate lab
Landmark scientific challenge to animal experimentation
Primate research on trial

Oct

National survey of veggie parents
Feathering their nests

Sep Reptile fair dies a death
Aug Mad Science Awards go to unsafe 'safety' tests
Jul DEFRA accused of ruddy duck slaughter cover-up
Jun

UK sales of Aquababies stifled by animal groups
Focus leads customers up the garden path

Apr

Victory at Henley Market
Mr Nasty shows his nice side!
BBC's coverage of the Grand National condemned as a new hurdle to animal welfare
Aintree deaths - Desert Mountain and Anubis Quercus
Call for Queen Mother Horse Fund

Mar

Countdown to Grand National protest
Bred to Suffer: Animal research 'a catastrophe' for humans
Veggie kids neglected by school caterers

Feb Spike Milligan - Animal Aid mourns the death of its patron
Animal Aid tells Jockey Club - 'Yes, we'll meet. But pledge £5 million p.a. for retired racehorses'
Cambridge primate centre planning permission refused
Undercover report forces DIY chain to do U-turn on animal sales
Jan

DIY chain and the horror of the wild bird trade
Hazard of pig organs in humans

2001

Nov

Young Blood: Government attacked over child shooters
Cruelty-free Christmas fayre: I don't believe it!!

Sep Pheasant shooting industry leaders forced to admit: 'Greed and excess are tearing us apart'
Aug Monkey vivisectors get this year's Mad Science Awards
Jun Animal protection groups fight Oxford horse omnibus plan
Piglets, lambs and calves being culled by methods too cruel for US vets
Correspondence with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
May Labour's betrayal - what chance protection for animals in the new parliament?
The catastrophe of GM animal research
Reprieve for the animals at Mossburn Animal Sanctuary
New chance for Mossburn sanctuary animals
MAFF's proposed slaughter of the animals at Mossburn Animal Sanctuary
Open letter to Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers' Union
Animal Aid marches on NFU
'Farmers' apologise for foot and mouth carnage and mayhem
Animal rights activists to demand NFU apology over foot & mouth
Apr Phoenix: the farming industry's nauseating hypocrisy
Drug residue worries over FMD vaccination?
Animal Aid celebrate victory for reptiles
RSPCA urged to prosecute Grand National organisers for animal cruelty
Aintree kills another horse
Bobbyjo - yet another victim of National Hunt racing
Mar Call for permanent closure of livestock markets
One in 31 National Hunt horses raced to death last year
The suffering of sheep didn't start with FMD
Culls spreading CJD danger
Farmers owe public an apology
Animal Aid calls on mothers to go dairy free
The policy of culling
Animal Aid celebrate victory for reptiles
Feb There's never been a better time to go veggie
Europe under threat from foot and mouth disease
Foot and mouth: Animals are the first victims
Animal Aid launch video nasty, backed by Moby
Animal Aid launch the Lazy Gourmet's Guide
Jan John Lewis bloodsport club disbands under animal rights pressure

2000

Dec Animal Aid celebrates as World of Reptiles proposal is scrapped
Nov Pheasant meat: Neither wild nor guaranteed safe to eat
Oct Celebrity gift bonanza at cruelty-free Christmas fayre
DIY store chain forced to end reptile sales after nine month Animal Aid campaign
Mayor Livingstone's ban on pigeon feed in Trafalgar Square, branded 'inept, cynical and callous'
Sep New report exposes devastating impact on wildlife of pheasant shooting industry
DIY chain's legal threat to Animal Aid over iguana sales backfires
DIY chain of disaster - for reptiles
Aug Factory farming vivisectors get this year's Mad Science Awards
Jun Animal group to stage sit-down demos in DIY stores
No place for livestock markets in modern Britain, says new shock report
DIY chain told to end hazardous reptile sales
Apr Five horses dead in three days is no cause for celebration
Another horse dead - but 'business as usual' at the Grand National meet
Animal Aid condemns bloodbath at opening of Grand National meet
Mar Betting shops target of Grand National campaign
The Burgeroid invasion begins!
Gay rights meets scourge of vivisectors at London exhibiton
Feb Beat the Burgeroids
Invasion of the bovine snatchers
Local demos against DIY chain's pet sales

1999

Nov Stars come out for cruelty-free Christmas
Oct Call for immediate cessation of live exports to France
Aug Cat and dog vivisectors win 'Mad Science Awards'
Anti vivisection movement rejoices as Hillgrove Farm closes
Cathedral sees the light on bloodsports
Jun Heroes to receive Animal Pride awards
Apr Protest at WWT Slimbridge
  Nominations sought for Kent awards
Sussex awards
Essex awards
Mar RSPB target of week of action
Feb Government to slaughter thousands of ducks
Trial veggie month
Jan Veggie food from the stars

1998

Dec Christmas Without Cruelty
Nov Eat like a star
Cosmetic ban
  Watchdog
Jul Mad Science Awards
Animal Pride roadshow
Ruddy ducks
  Young people reject animal experiments as 'unscientific'
Apr Animal Pride
Mar Meat kills
Meat the silent killer
Feb You can kick the meat habit!

1997

Sep Carry the card - save people and animals
Aug Give Unilever the boot


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