Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
14 November 2008
A man who forced a chicken to drink whisky and blew cannabis smoke in its face before suffocating it in County Durham has been spared a jail term. Gary Maxwell, 21, smashed another hen’s head repeatedly against a shed wall until its neck snapped in Consett.
He was sentenced to an 18-month community order [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Northern Echo November 2008
AN animal rights activist believes his car has been damaged by people he has crossed during his 17-year campaign.
John Gill, from Castleside, Consett, County Durham, waged war against the use of snares when his dog died after getting caught by one.
He travels around the North-East cutting snares to stop them injuring deer, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A man who recently trained greyhounds for racing at Newcastle Stadium has admitted to a national newspaper that he “had 23 put down in 10 months up to May this year and none of them needed to be medically euthanased”.
Brian Clements’ admissions appeared in a Sunday Times article on November 16th, which exposed a ‘race-fix [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greyhound Action supporters on Teesside have set up a local branch to educate members of the public in the area not to support greyhound racing.
This is especially important because, although the Middlesbrough greyhound stadium closed some years ago, people from the area still go for a night at the dogs at the Sunderland and Newcastle [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the Northumberland Gazette:
20 November 2008
BADGER baiters who were caught interfering with a sett in north Northumberland and found with vile videos of animal cruelty on their phones have been sentenced today.
Callous Christopher Hindmarsh and accomplice Justin Lang have been disqualified from keeping dogs for three years and will have to pay £260 each for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, Cruise has been found selling fur. Along with jackets made of “100% sheepskin” and “100% lamb-fur” is a Moncler coat with a real fur collar. Cruise had a fur-free policy for many years… have they dropped this?
If so, they’ll be in for a treat. A local campaign is about to begin while we [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NARC was set up to try and network between existing groups and individuals in the north of England. There used to be a lot of activity in the north – stalls, demonstrations, hunt sabs, etc. but this has declined in recent years. Now we would like to start up campaigns again around the northern counties [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday December 6th is a global day of action against climate change. This year there is a national climate march in London, starting at 12 noon in Parliament Square. Sheffield Animal Friends are hoping to get a decent Vegan presence there…
If anyone wants to come, Sheffield Campaign against Climate Change are organising coaches. It will [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just received from Durham Brewery (will be going on our “Go Vegan” page also).
“All of our bottled beers are suitable for vegans as they don’t contain the isinglass (fish derived) finings that most cask and bottled beer use to make the beer clear. Instead we use a different sort of yeast for bottling which [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having had a quick look in an Edinburgh Woolen Mill today, one of our campaigners discovered that they are selling leather gloves with rabbit fur trim again (this doesn’t appear to be on their website however) after saying they wouldn’t be stocking it after Spring…. we thought they might have meant to add “until Winter” [...]
