Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty UK Newsletter #33

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty 6 Boat Lane, Evesham , Worcs WR11 48P Tel 0845 458 0630 email: info@shac.net www.shac.net

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Mobilisation of the Masses Part I Ter111.inal a li.eathrow Today the police tried to play catch up. A vanload of coppers pulled into the meeting point just as our last vehicle was leaving.

They had earlier stopped a car with a banner saying 'Heathrow import animals for torture'! Despite this the police still couldn't work out where the demo was going to be.

So when 30 of us strode into terminal 2 and held a very very noisy demo complete with 4 metre banner, there were no security or police in sight.

We had a completely free . rein , with airhorns blasting and everyone shouting about Heathrow's dirty secrets.

Leaflets were strewn all over the terminal.

No one challenged us, in fact the staff behind the airline desks were very supportive, as were

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most of the passengers. There were lots of press around , apparently Posh and Becks were due to fly in or out.

Eventually security arrived and tried to make up for lost time with the usual macho display.

As we made our way back to our vehicles the police came pulling through the multi-storey car park, blocked the exit and searched all the cars. Along came coppers from Thames Valley (who must have been sad and lonely in Oxford) to • follow us for the rest of the day, so we regrouped and took them to a lively demo at GlaxoSmithKline .

Great day. Great teamwork.

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UK Airports Targetted for Importing Animals for Torture in British Labs!

Activists from all over the country gathered to demonstrate at Terminals 2 & 3 London Heathrow and Manchester Airport in a co-ordinated day of action against the authorities that allow the importation of animals for onward transportation to HLS, Oxford University , Covance and other UK labs! At the Departures barrier around 70 activists in total unfurled their banners and switched on their megaphones - lots of them! With about 5 megaphones per group per terminal BAA were shamed for importing animals for torture .

Even with all the security you would hope to expect in our airports in this era of terrorism the demos continued for much longer than we had anticipated.

As the inept security tried to remove our banners and megaphones activists leafleted the airports to the cheer and support of passengers and staff alike! Eventually the security gave up their task to the Police,

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who after putting their guns down (nothing will scare us!) escorted the groups from the term inals - who continued to demonstrate and leaflet! We continued our day with a mobile demo - racing from location to location until we arrived finally at Glaxo HQ - on mass!

Here we were met by a large police presence, who looked very christmassy with so many blue lights and bright yellow jackets.The achievement made to today by all the activists working as a complete team to acheive our aims was brilliant.

Many of us spent hours leading the Police away from Heathrow and Manchester , many of us spent hours waiting and sat in cars before the strike , many of us spent our hard earned money on petrol and tickets, but ALL of us worked together to achieve this truly fantastic feat in the name of ending live imports to the UK through our airports. United we stand - singularly they WILL fall!

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Part 3 Manchester Activists from the North of England made their way to Manchester airport to inform as many employees and customers as poss ible about Manchester airport 's involvement in the cruel and barbaric import and export trade of live animals for vivisection . Manchester Airport imports dogs and birds for HLS and exports guinea pigs for the noto rious Newchurch Farm.

These guinea pigs are sent to other countries to be killed in cosmetics and product testing experiments . Activists were able to give thousands of leaflets to customers, employees, flight attendants and even pilots! All of these people were shocked and amazed that Manchester was dealing in such a bloody trade. They were disgusted to hear that some of the everyday airlines that were used for holiday destinations also carried animals. We then moved outside the main doors to leaflet customers , and then went on to the multi-story car parks.Outside banners were hung from several r,oints around the airport .

Some of the companies who have pulled out of Huntingdon since the last newsletter.

BOCditch R.untingdon Amazing news After an intensive campaign with over 100 demos taking p.lace R.unt i ngdon s gas supplier :aochave pu"l.led out .

airp .ort These banners could clearly be seen from the busy roundabouts and passing motorists hooted their approval as they were being put in place.

Once the job was done at the airport, we made our way to Manchester 's freight terminal just a couple of miles down the road. This is the area where hundreds of terrified animals are taken before being sent on to their fate in laboratories around England or exported to labs all over the world. This massive industrial estate is the hub of the import and export trade at Manchester airport . All the businesses there were made fully aware of the new campaign against Manchester airport, and one employer has already given us some promising information .

The campaigns against Manchester Airport and Heathrow Airport that will be launched in the New Year by a coalition of activists and grass roots campaigns are campaigns we as a movement are going to win!

The,,- were quoted in the FT as say-ing that sup .plying R.untingaon had been financially viable until SR.ACbecame involved.

Apparently the cost of security was too much.

Disgusting LS Services imported bira.s into R.LSfor , vivisection.

Unfortunately details of their involvement in animal abuse were leaked to a number of animal rights campaigns nationwide by an R.LS worlcer. The,,- have now made a statement.

Funny how all these money-grabbers are . hap .py to trade in animal life until they get caught out. This a compan,,- we will definitely be keeping a close eye on.

New prisoner Sarah is on remand in HMP charged with several counts of criminal damage connected to Huntingdon Life Sciences and their associates.

You can judge a movement by the way it treats its prisoners so support her.

Make sure you send Sarah a Christmas card and write to her regularly . It's only when you have been there you realise just how much letters mean.

Sarah can also receive books but not

Sarah Gisborne magazines. She can receive stationary including stamps , writing paper and envelopes but not pens. Never forget that she is in prison with nothing to gain for herself . She is there for the animals.

Lastly remember that all prison mail is read so don 't put anything incriminating in your letters .

Sarah Gisborne LT5393 HMP Holloway, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU

ACC SHIPPING LTD ACC House, 43 The Terrace, Gravesend , Kent DA12 2BJ Tel 01474 333 387 Fax 01474 332 700 Email: info@acc-g.com ACC Shipping have been involved with HLS twice in the past and yet refuse to sever their links with them . Please ask them if they would like to make a statement.

Perkinelmer Limited Chalfont Road, Seer Green, Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire, HP9 2FX Tel: 01494 874 515 Sales: 0800 896 046 This company sell analytical equipment used for experiments at HLS and have been recently exposed in documents leaked from HLS.

9 5 Speed Couriers Unit 3, Tewin road business Centre, Garden Court, Welwyn Garden City, HertsAL71BH 01707 327 662 5 Speed Couriers, Joseph House, Harolds Road, The Pinnacles, Harlow, Essex CM19 5BJ Tel 01279 443 655

FISHER SCIENTIFIC They supply HLS with laboratory equipment used to conduct vicious, barbaric experiments on animals trapped inside their labs.

Fisher Scientific UK Ltd Bishop Meadow Road Loughborough Leics LE11 5RG Tel 01509 23 11 66 Fax 01509 231 893 Email: info@fisher.co.uk www.fisher.co.uk Orme Technologies, part of Fisher Scientific UK Ltd Whitbrook Way, Stakehill Industrial Park, Middleton, Manchester M24 2RH Tel: 0161 653 4589 Fax 0161 655 3011 Maybridge (This company is a part of Fisher) Trevillett, Tintagel, Cornwall PL34 OHW, Telephone: 01840 770453 Fax: 01840 770111 Email: internetenquiries@maybridge . corn

2 ABBOTS RIPTON CARS Tel: 01480 520 80 HLS have an account with this firm for taxis and courier serv ices.

BAS LTD David Bowens, MD, Stonegate Business Park, Alconbury Hill, Alconbury Weston, Cambs PE28 5TS tel 01487 834 188 This company rent skips to HLS for animal bedding that comes out of the units. They know exactly what they are doing and don't give a damn about animals .

They deliver for Roche and Glaxo to Huntingdon, they are also two of HLS's biggest customers, to the labs.

Circle express Unit C Axis Park, Hurricane Way, Langley, Slough, Berkshire SL3 BAG Tel: 01753 214600 Circle Express are another freight company that have been spotted going to HLS.

JOHN'S TAXIS 66 Mount Street, Diss , IP22 4QQ TEL: 01379 640 000 Or freephone: 0800 5945646 This firm has been working with HLS for years.

Menlo Worldwide Forwarding Worldwide House, 19 Airlinks, Spitfire Way, Heston , Middlesex TW5 9NR Tel: 0208 260 6465 Email : tradeservices. info@menloworldwide .com

7 FRYERS CATERING SOUTH MARCH, Long March industrial estate, DAVENTRY, NORTHANTS NN11 4PH Tel: 01327 300 744 Tel: 08701 213 663 This company are a long term HLS supplier.

11 INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT SUPPLIES International Product Supplies supply HLS and are one of their key suppliers. They also supply Newchurch Guinea Pigs. This company were so desperate to escape from the campaign that they moved offices under cover of darkness - paranoid or what!

Contact IPS and voice your disgust at their involvement with HLS: International Product Supplies, BCM IPS Ltd , London WC1N 3XX Tel 08706 001 616 Fax 08706 001 615 Email: customers @ipsltd .biz

Geologistics Goole UK Finance Centre , Geologisitcs Ltd, PO Box 8, A.W. Nielsen Road, Goole, East Yorkshire, DN14 6XH Tel: 01405 763 332 Head Office: Geologistics Ltd, Royal Court , 81 Tweedy Road, Bromley, Kent BR1 1TW European HQ: Unit 1, Northumberland Close, Stanwell.

Middlesex TW19 7LN Tel : 0208 460 5050 Geologistics say they will review their position when HLS ask them to work for them again. Please point out to them what kind of company HLS are.

HLS's new fire services company is a tinpot firm in London: TD fire Services, Unit 8, Westgate Centre, Bocking Street, London E8 3RU Tel: 0207 739 1665 Mobile: 0789165 2085

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17 Front Row Distribution deliver to HLS on a regular basis. They operate out of one office: Front Row Distribution 4, Brassey Close, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE1 2AZ Tel: 01733 552212 Please contact the director Gary Maycock and ask him to stop delivering to HLS. Email : gary @frontrow4.lsnet. co.uk

15 PP.ENOMENEX Phenomenex supply lab equipment to HLS. Over to the North on this one. Please contact Phenomenex and ask them to stop supplying HLS. PHENOMENEX Melville House , Queens Avenue, Hurdsfield Industrial Estate, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2BN Tel: 01625 501 367 Fax: 01625 501 796

Healthcare Logistics , The Ridgeway, lver, Bucks, SL0 9JW Tel: 01753 650 099 Hl'althcare Logistics Unit 3, The Merlin Centre, Cressex business Centre, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP12 3QL tel: 01494 894 800 This company goes in and out of HLS all the time . Ask them to think ethically and act decently and drop HLS.

Nightspeed HQ: Vaughan Trading Estate, Sedgley road East, Tipton , West Midlands DY4 7UJ Tel: 0121 522 2266 Email : salesresponse @nightspeed .com globalresponse@nightspeed.com post @nightspeed.com Ian Pickford, MD is the person in charge of this company. We have contacted him already but received no reply. Please ask them t stop delivering to HLS and point out that APC Overnight , Interlink Express and ANC all have.

Diane Jones is his PA diane.jones @nightspeed.com

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2 Star transport - Thetford Star transport and warehousing ltd Star house, Brunel way, Thetford , Norfolk IP24 1HP tel 01842 752 603 star -transport @btconnect.com Star Transport have been emailed about their involvement with HLS but haven 't bothered getting back in touch.

18 Regional Freight Services Ltd Regional house , Airport business Centre, Norwich, Norfolk NR6 6BS Tel: 01603 414 125 Fax: 01603 402 542 Email: rfs@regfrt.co .uk Website : regionalfreight.co .uk This company has been asked to stop dealing with HLS but said 'it 's just business'.

Emails: cbr@regfrt.co .uk jch @regfrt.co.uk pga @regfrt.co.uk tro@regfrt.co. uk

19 UPS are in out of HLS's gates like yoyo 's. Contact their HQ and ask them to stop dealing with HLS. UPS, Forest Road, Feltham, Middlesex, TW13 7DY Customer Service: 08457-877-877

21 TARGET EXPRESS www.targetworldwide.co.uk 01638 72 1118 The Fires Industrial Estate , Fordham Road, Exning, Newmarket, CBB 7LQ Head Office:Cheshire enquiries @targetworldwide.co.uk paul murray is md paulmurray @targetworldwide.co.uk

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BIOCAIR The Business Centre, Church End, Cambridge , CB1 3LB Tel: 01223 245 223 This is a vivisection indus try freight company that have been spotted going in and out of HLS by local supporters.

LYNX Head Office, St Davids Way Bermuda Industrial Estate Nuneaton Warwickshire CV107SD Tel: 024 7637 3737 Fax: 024 7658 6646 Yet another parcel company that goes into Huntingdon most days

Tufnells Express Parcels Cherry Court Way, Marley Industrial Estate, off stanbridge road , leighton buzzard lu7 Suh tel 01525 378 136 fax 01525 372 403 This nationwide parcel firm deliver to HLS on a regular basis. Tell them about all the other freight companies that have dropped HLS and ask them to do the same.

23 Another leak from our HLS contact : UTi Worldwide (UK) Ltd (HEAD OFFICE) Reading Cargo Centre Hyperion Way, Rose Kiln Lane Reading, Berks Phone : 0118 9869 595 eMail: redo @go2uti.com They said they would 'look into it' and what a surprise we never heard back.

GRASEBY MEDICAL Colonial Way, Watford, WD2 4GL Tel 01923 246 434 www.graseby.co .uk Greasby Medical are another a long term HLS supplier Email: siobhan. rowe @graseby.co.uk Greasby are owned by Smiths Medical , 765 Finchley Road, London , NW11 8DS Tel: 0208 458 3232 Fax: 0208 201 9024 info @smiths-medical .com Smiths Medical Internation al Ltd, Hythe, Kent, CT21 6JL, United Kingdom Tel: 01303 260551

be found trying to get into Marian 's house , putting her head

The true story of a calf rescued from the jaws of death.

Rhani was a baby calf just 8 days old . Workers were kicking and beating her and loudly cursing her as they hauled her onto the slaughterer 's lorry at the Sevenoaks Market In Kent. She was to be slaughtered the next day. Marion Eastwood stood watching . After the wor kers got Rhanl Into the lying there with her eyes squeezed shut as if to shut out the

inside the window to be near her rescuer and sometimes to steal bananas, which she loves. Rhani is very inquisitive and has gotten into trouble several times when she has broken into the neighbour 's vegetable patch , but no one gets mad at her, because she 's so sweet and gentle . A very sociable cow who loves to be included, Rhani frequently comes over to stand behind volunteers at the sanctuary as

horror of what was happening to her.

they work . She is very nosy and afraid of nothing.

Even though just the week before , Marion had bought another 8-day-old calf named Rosie, she couldn 't bear to walk away from the baby animal lying in the truck with her eyes shut. She asked the slaughterer how much he would charge for Rhanl. He said £13.50, which she paid him . The little calf was so terrified that she kept her eyes shut all through being removed from the slaughterer 's truck and loaded Into the back of Marian 's car. Marion knew she could be breakIng all sorts of regulations by transporting Rhani in her car, but she was desperate to get the little animal away as soon as possible. Rhani was in shock and didn 't move a muscle .

Almost any time someone builds a fire, Rhani and Rosie

truck and walked away, Marion went over to it. Rhani was

When Marion got to her home, Friend Animal Sanctuary, the traumatised baby call, eyes still tightly shut , had to be carried all the way up to the paddock . There, Rosie stood waiting . Rosie mooed to Rhanl, and with that, Rhanl opened her eyes. She saw Rosie and the paddock and an orchard and acres of land. She struggled to her feet and wobbled straight over to Rosie. They licked each other and then walked off together.

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can be found next to it, enjoying its warmth . She also likes vehicles - perhaps she remembers that being put into a car saved her life. If you leave a car door open , she tries to get in, even though she's much too big. Once , she managed to get her front end into Marian's car, and Marion thought

she was going to have to call the lire brigade to get her out .

Luckily , Rhanl backed out when she was good and ready to.

Rhani is a beautiful cow now and so gentle and friendly

At first, Rhanl would not suckle a bottle , and she became weak . But after much coaxing and stroking of Rhani 's fur, Marion finally got her to take the bottle . She bottle-fed both Rhani and Rosie for several months , and they grew bigger and stronger. Rhanl was also put on a course of homoeopathy to help her through the shock of her ordeal.

For more information contact the Vegan Society, Donald Watson House , 7 Battle road, SI. Leaonards - on - Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7AA Tel 0845 458 8244 email: lnfo @vegansociety.com

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Today , Rhani is friends with all the sheep, goats , chickens and pigs at the sanctuary. She is very sweet and often can

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