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Jill Treanor. Ten years ago investors rushed to buy shares in Huntingdon Life Sciences, which once
traded at more than 300p. Now, it is a pariah to big institutional investors. Earlier this week the
shares were worth 1p.
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Guardian: Huntingdon Life: facing collapse in 36 hours
Jill Treanor, Steven Morris and Andrew Clark. The Royal Bank of Scotland is the highest profile
bank with links to Huntingdon and it faces the difficult prospect of being accused of surrendering
to the protesters who have targeted its directors, branches, employees, customers and vandalised
its cash machines.
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Guardian - An old lady helps out
Leader. In a world in which too many private financial institutions - bankers, stockbrokers,
investment houses - have lamely capitulated to threats from extreme animal rights activists,
ministers deserve praise for the way in which they have rallied support for beleaguered Huntingdon
Life Sciences (HLS) through the Bank of England.
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Guardian: Ethical reasons why beagles have to die: animal research HLS defends its production line
Paul Kelso. Around half of the research at HLS involves animals and is designed to meet the Animal
Scientific Procedures Act (1986) which demands that a wide range of drugs, food additives,
industrial chemicals and domestic products is tested before being released on to the market.
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Guardian: Masked attackers beat Huntingdon boss
Staff and agencies. Detective Inspector Robbie Robertson said the "callous and cowardly"
attack on Brian Cass, 53, happened as he arrived at his home in St Ives at around 7.50pm last
night. Two members of the public who tried to help Mr Cass were sprayed with CS gas before the
assailants, one of whom is believed to be a woman, fled.
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ABC News: Animal Rights Groups Wage War on Banks
Animal rights activists in Europe have found it is much more effective to focus on the employees of
research companies' banks and brokerages, and now they are bringing such campaigns to the United
States.
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Telegraph: Directors to be shielded from animal protesters
David Cracknell, deputy political editor. Ministers are to exempt directors and shareholders of
companies that do animal research from the normal legal requirement to list their addresses in
company accounts after directors of HLS received hate mail and threatening visits from animal
rights activists.
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Independent: Animal test chiefs get secret addresses
Colin Brown, political editor. Company directors are to be allowed to keep their private addresses
secret in a U-turn by the Government to stop animal rights protesters intimidating firms involved
in animal research. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Stephen Byers, is ready to give
company directors an anonymity clause in legislation to streamline company law after the election.
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Telegraph: Yesterday in Parliament: Lab staff 'must be protected from animal rights terrorists'
Michael Kallenbach, parliamentary correspondent. A Tory proposal that home addresses of key
personnel and shareholders involved in animal research companies should be protected was welcomed
by the Government yesterday.
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BBC: Police hold animal rights protesters
Eighty-seven people were arrested after the offices of two pharmaceutical companies were damaged
during a protest by animal rights protesters.
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Telegraph: Straw acts to halt intimidation of animal lab staff
George Jones, political editor. The Home Secretary announced amendments will be tabled today to the
Criminal Justice and Police Bill, currently before Parliament, to give the scientific community
better protection from protest tactics used by anti-vivisectionists. They would also allow harsher
punishments for sending hate mail and would bring email and mobile phone text messaging under the
Malicious Communications Act.
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Telegraph: Victim got what he deserved, says animal group's founder
Richard Alleyne. Ronnie Lee, the founder of the Animal Liberation Front, expressed unqualified
support yesterday for the gang that attacked Brian Cash, the Huntingdon Life Sciences managing
director, declaring: "He has got off lightly."
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Telegraph: Pro-animal violence 'is work of 100 extremists'
John Steele, crime correspondent. About 100 animal rights extremists are responsible for increasing
terror tactics against scientists and hunt supporters, including personal violence and incendiary
devices, police believe. he new breed of violent activist is said to shelter under the banner of
the wider animal welfare movement but is willing to resort to tactics normally associated with
terrorists.
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Guardian: Malicious protesters: the Huntingdon gang must be punished
Leader. 275m animals, mainly rats and mice, are killed every year by cats in a gratuitously brutal
way. If the animal rights protesters really cared about prolonging animal life rather than
intimidating humans for experimenting on animals, they should turn their energies on the domestic
cat.
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Ananova: 'Weapons' found in hunt for lab chief's attackers
Police have found the three weapons believed to have been used to assault Brian Cass, the managing
director of Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire.
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BBC: Euro MPs fight 'cruel' cosmetics
MEPs back a ban on animal-tested cosmetics - sparking warnings of a US trade war if EU governments
implement it.
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Sunday Telegraph: When bankers face the terrorists
Alasdair Palmer. Professor Colin Blakemore, the Waynefleet Professor of Physiology and a staunch
defender of the importance of experimenting on animals in order to achieve medical benefits for
people, has, over the years, been threatened with both kidnapping and murder by animal rights
terrorists. He has been beaten up and had letter bombs sent to his home, one of which contained
half a pound of high explosive packed with needles. It was wrapped so as to appeal to his children,
to whom it was delivered.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2001/04/15/do04.xml
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Guardian: Straw pays tribute to animal test lab
Michael White, political editor. The home secretary's visit came as Tony Blair announced a
ministerial committee to look at further ways to protect such firms - and their staff - from
attacks from animal rights militants, whose loose organisation has defied police efforts to bring
them to account.
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Ananova: Animal protesters target director's home
Two protesters have climbed on to the roof of a house in the latest demonstration against animal
testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences.
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Daily Telegraph: Counter-terrorism
Leader. HLS was a company engaged in lawful and important work, supported by an association
representing more than 100 medical research charities, being driven to ruin by a small bunch of
terrorist fanatics. The decision has already put the animal rights terrorists on the defensive.
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Ananova: Eight held in Huntingdon protest
Fifteen demonstrators, eight arrests.
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Guardian: In brief: Animal activist jailed for attack
David Blenkinsop, one of three animal activists who attacked the managing director of the animal
research firm Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire with wooden staves and pick axe handles,
was yesterday jailed for three years by Peterborough crown court.
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Guardian: Huntingdon Life Sciences to list in the US
Andrew Clark. "Huntingdon Life Sciences was accused of raising the white flag to animal rights
extremists yesterday as it announced plans to quit the London Stock Exchange for a listing in the
US." UK.
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Telegraph: Animal welfare thugs funded via US charity
Daniel Foggo. Animal rights extremists waging a campaign to close Huntingdon Life Sciences, the
biggest animal testing laboratory in Europe, are being funded by money channelled through the
charity Animal Rights America (ARA) in New Jersey, USA.
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Telegraph: Picketing laws to protect workers at animal laboratory
Philip Johnston, home affairs editor. Laws brought in to stop trade unions victimising
strike-breakers are to be used against animal rights protesters trying to close Britain's biggest
animal testing laboratory.
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Telegraph: Citibank drops protest lab
Benjamin Wootliff. The bank confirmed that it would not act as custodian for its clients who hold
shares in HLS. Officials refused to comment on the decision, but the bank is believed to have
received threats against its staff.
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BBC: Animal demos may prompt law change
Home Secretary Jack Straw is to propose changes in the law in the wake of animal rights
demonstrations at Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
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Telegraph: Minister set up deal to save animal lab
David Harrison, Environment Correspondent. Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, brokered an
agreement to refinance the company after the Royal Bank of Scotland withdrew a loan of £22.6
million because staff and customers had been threatened by animal rights protesters.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/21/nhls21.xml
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Telegraph: Activists pledge to ruin backers who saved animal research firm
Richard Alleyne. As HLS put the final touches to a long-term deal with an undisclosed group of
American backers, activists vowed to track them down and "financially destroy" them.
Protesters also reacted angrily to news that the Royal Bank of Scotland had written off its £11
million loan to the company.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/22/nlife22.xml
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Guardian - Arkansas firm rescued Huntingdon Life Sciences
Andrew Clark. Stephens Group, a family controlled, Arkansas-based investment firm with close links
to the former Clinton administration has emerged as the "secret" rescuer of Huntingdon
Life Sciences, the controversial animal testing company. It has extended a long term loan of about
£10m to Huntingdon, replacing credit facilities cancelled by Royal Bank of Scotland last week.
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