This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this ...

Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate ...

An article in The Independent this week (Tuesday 10) shares world-first footage of egg-laying hens being suffocated to death in gas chambers. The footage, filmed at an RSPCA Assured slaughterhouse, ...

Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. This Friday and Saturday (6th and 7th June) is the Epsom Derby Festival – a ...

Animal Aid campaigns peacefully against all animal abuse, and promotes a cruelty-free lifestyle. The Old Chapel Bradford Street Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1AW UK Tel: +44 (0)1732 364546 Email: info@animalaid ...

Fur Free Britain, a coalition of animal protection groups, handed in a petition today calling for a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK. In 2002, the UK became the first country to ban the ...

Animal protections have advanced encouragingly in recent decades, but one group of species has been almost entirely absent ...

Disturbing figures show that whip offences by jockeys have increased by 48.5% in 2023 when compared to figures from 2022. Following a lengthy review into the whip in 2022, the British Horseracing ...