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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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