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.
- http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90152&page=1

Guardian: Company that fell from grace
- 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.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,423757,00.html

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,
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,423756,00.html

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 suppo
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,516035,00.html

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
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,442331,00.html

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 wer
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,441972,00.html

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 t
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/04/ndir04.xml

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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/06/npar06.xml

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1165463.stm

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-vivisec
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/22/nalf22.xml

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."
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/24/nhls124.xml

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
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/02/24/nhls224.xml

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 tur
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,442259,00.html

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1258261.stm

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 kidnapp
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2001/04/15/do04.xml

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 defi
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,479205,00.html

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.
- http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_333733.html

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
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2001/07/03/dl02.xml

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 c
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,538094,00.html

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.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4274023,00.html

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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/02/nshac02.xml

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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/18/nalf18.xml

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.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/18/nalf118.xml

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).
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1124131.stm

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 ri
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/21/nhls21.xml

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 Sc
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/22/nlife22.xml

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
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,430196,00.html