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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
On the 28th of October last year 4 animal rights activists were arrested for breach of section 14 of the public order act during a protest at AstraZeneca offices in Luton for their use of the notorious animal testing lab Huntingdon Life Sciences.
The arrest was a blatant breach of human ...
Tags: animal testing, Astrazeneca, Demos, HLS, SHAC, vivisection
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
JUDGE TO RULE IN ARGUEMENT OVER LAND DEAL
NIRAH were at the High Court last week in an attempt to save their deal with Hanson to buy the land needed for the project. If they are unsuccessful their option to buy expires at the end of the year. A decision is ...
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
A report in last week's Bedfordshire Times and Citizen claimed that council bosses felt 'left in the dark' and were 'deeply concerned' over the lack of news regarding the NIRAH project. They have apparently had little or no information on the project over the past 12 months. The concerns appear ...
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The NIRAH project looks set to suffer a further setback. It appears it may lose the land on which it was to be built at Quest Pit near Stewartby. Hanson agreed to sell NIRAH the land provided it did not affect any of their other operations in the area. The ...
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Whilst holding an information stall (see below) in Bedford town centre this weekend members of Bedford Animal Action noticed that a pigeon had become trapped on the Marks and Spencer building in Midland Road. It appeared to have got one of its legs stuck between a pipe and the wall ...
Tags: pigeons, wildlife
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
Nirah have been struggling to raise money and have now experienced a further setback; their financial advisors, MacArthur and Co, have gone in to administration. The full story can be read at http://www.bedsonsunday.com/bedsonsunday-news/displayarticle.asp?id=397781 and the Mayor's predictable repsonse on the following week's letters at
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Bedford Animal Action took to the streets again today, this time with an information stall in Bedford town centre. The stall was in support of Animal Aid's Day of Action to End Primate Experiments.
Currently the EU law that governs animal testing across Europe, including the UK, is being revised. More ...
Tags: Animal Aid, animal testing, primates, stalls, vivisection
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Despite the recent opening of Oxford University's new animal lab, the campaign against it is still going strong. Members of Bedford Animal Action travelled to Oxford at the weekend to help out with an information stall. Support from members of the public was strong with many stopping to sign petitions ...
Tags: animal testing, Oxford University, SPEAK, stalls, vivisection
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Mid Beds District Councillor Roger Baines has rasied concerns over NIRAH, fearful that any more money given to them by the council may be seen as "throwing good money after bad".
He is worried that once the two new unitary authorities of Central Bedfordshire and Bedford Borough are set up ...
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The NIRAH Project is "hanging on by its fingernails" according to Mayor Frank Branston. The Mayor, who has always been a supporter of NIRAH, apparently made the comments in the latest issue of Bedford News, the Borough Council's newsletter. He claims that the economic downturn is putting the project at risk of collapse. ...
Tags: aquariums, CAPS, captive animals, nirah
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