LEGAL WIN FOR NATIONAL TRUST
The National Trust, the UK’s largest and richest charity with 74 million visitors a year has fought off a legal claim for compensation of £300,000 after an 11 year old boy….
LESS CRUELTY FOR MARKETING PURPOSES
A move by the government to implement a ban on testing new brands of bleach, disinfectant, lavatory cleaner, glue and air freshener on animals has been welcomed….
LESS CRUELTY FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES
Animal welfare groups will also be cheered by the news that the ritual halal and kosher slaughter, whereby the animal has to be fully conscious as its throat is cut, has….
LESS CRUELTY FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES
A campaign against the use of the whip in horse-racing has been mounted by Animal Aid….
BAN FOR ABORTION CHARITIES
The government is considering a ban on abortion counselling by charities that also supply the abortions….
MORE DAMAGE TO CRUFT’S NAME
Following a prosecution by the RSPCA a dog trainer who won dozens of honours from Crufts was banned from keeping animals for life after a raid by the charity….
THE TAINT OF MURDOCH
With most thinking people figuring that the loss of Rupert Murdoch’s News of The World was not much of a loss to society, and only ever filled a much-needed gap….