More info on the demo on Sat

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Read below for more info on the demo on Saturday. Come on, UK people! Come

along!! Let's win this and stop the animal testing.

 

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City Faces Huge Demo Over Labs

 

Cambridge Evening News, (big front page headlines) Tue Oct 7

 

A MASS mobilisation of animal rights campaigners could see Cambridge face

the largest ever demonstration of its kind this weekend.

 

Coaches from as far away as Liverpool and Cornwall are expected to arrive in

the city on Saturday for a rally against Cambridge University's plans to

open a primate research lab in Girton.

 

For weeks websites have been urging people to spread the word throughout

their areas, download flyers and put up posters.

 

They have also been asked to make placards and banners for the day and bring

along megaphones, whistles and horns.

 

A rally and speeches on Parker's Piece at noon will be followed by a march

through the streets of the city between 2pm and 4pm.

 

They will stop en route to protest outside Senate House and outside

university labs where they claim animal experiments already take place.

 

Chief Insp Steve Pearl, of Cambridgeshire Police, said: " They are saying

they are expecting up to 1,000 people. I have yet to see that many people on

an animal rights demo " .

 

He said he had walked the proposed route of the march with the organisers

and promised his officers would try to keep disruption to a minimum.

 

He said: " We will be advising people coming to Cambridge to use park and

ride or leave their car in a car park outside the city centre.

 

The march is set to go from Regents Street, up St John's Street and along

Kings Parade and Downing St before heading back to Parker's Piece. Chief

Insp Pearl added: " There will be a significant police presence and it will

be highly visible in the city centre. We have to enable peaceful protest but

try to minimise any difficulties caused to other people.

 

*Animal Rights Protesters will make their presence felt today as members of

Cambridge University discuss allegations that they were misled over plans

for the monkey-testing laboratory.

 

As the News revealed in August, university's governing body, The Regent

House, approved plans for the controversial lab in Girton without knowing

animal experiments would take place there.

 

The truth was hidden by the university's council, which feared staff would

be targeted by animal rights activists if word got out.

 

Their actions were criticised in a report by the University's Board of

Scrutiny, which said the deception threatened to destroy the trust between

Regent House and those running the university.

 

It is that report which will be discussed by students and staff at Senate

House today.

 

Although the meeting will be closed to the public, protesters from various

groups, including Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge (SPEAC) and Animal

Aid will gather outside to voice opposition to the planned labs.

 

 

Please contact us if you have transport arranged and have spare places. We

are getting more and more calls every day. If your area isn't covered here,

we are still working on several areas, contact us and we will do our best to

organise something.

 

Midlands Coach £10 waged, £5 unwaged, picking up; Redditch Magistrates Court

8.30am, Birmingham 9.15am, Coventry 10am, To book a place and enquiries,

call 07952 561652 or email wmids_animalaction

 

Yorkshire coach £10 waged £5 unwaged Please make cheques payable to S. Brown

and send to P.O BOX 1440, DN11 OXR. Bradford - 7.30am Hilton Hotel - Halls

Ings, Leeds 7.45/8a.m Leeds playhouse - St. Peter's Street, Sheffield 8.30am

Sainsbury's Savacentre carpark Meadowhall front entrance to savacentre

 

North-West Coach. Picking up; Liverpool, 7.45am, Brownlow Hill, opposite

Adelphi Hotel. Lymm Services, Junction 20 of the M6, 8.30am. Also ferrying

by car from Manchester out to Lymm Services, meet 7.45am Chorlton St

Opposite Yates Wine Lodge. For further details and to book a place, contact

0845 456 0103, 07932 547785 (Manchester) or 0151 293 2009 (Liverpool),

 

Coach for Herts/Beds, pick up Hemel Hempstead Bus Station, 8.30am: Luton

Rail Station, 9.00am: Milton Keynes Coachway, 9.45am; Bedford Rail Station

10.30am;

To book your seats, send £5 to Dacorum Animal Rights Group, P.O. Box 254,

Hemel Hempstead, Herts., HP1 2SU. For more information, call 07949 166351 or

07815 794224 email; littleritchie15

 

 

London Coach, Leaving Kings Cross, York Way, 9.45am, to book a place and for

more details, call 07899 775493 or 07951 274371.

 

Oxford/Berks. Oxford Pick up TESCO car park, Cowley Retail Park/ring road

leaving at 9am Maidenhead - Pick up BR Station in Maidenhead leaving at

9.45am High Wycombe - Handy Cross Sports Centre - Lower Car Park leaving at

10.15am Enquiries and to book, call 07957 588253

 

Suffolk, minibus from Ipswich, contact Ipswich Animal Rights, 07870 911573

 

West and Wales; Bath/Bristol bus, phone 07816 324669

bathanimalaction. PO Box 426, Bath, BA1 2ZD

 

Coach from Brighton and Hove, also picking up as Pease Pottage, phone 01323

833519/831818 email; hydee.fisher, to enquire and book a

place

 

Norfolk, Norwich, transport, call for details 07736 403256, 07939 458846,

 

Devon/Cornwall, bus from Plymouth, may pick up en route, contact 01752

509275 email adrian.

 

Bournemouth Hants/Dorset 01202 593877, 07817 911724 Coach/minibus also

picking up in Winchester

 

East Midlands contact 07956 553934, Nottingham/Derby/Leicester