A loud "NO" to primate experiments in Cambridge

Someone from Cambridge | 11.10.2003 18:02 | Animal Liberation | Cambridge

About 1000 people marched through the centre of Cambridge this afternoon in an angry (but never violent) show of outrage at Cambridge University's continuing attempts to gain planning permission for a new primate laboratory on Huntingdon Road, and the incredible suffering that this would no doubt involve in the name of scientific research.

Crowd gathers to hear speakers before march

Outside the University's Senate House

Watched by the ever-present FIT...

Mounted police blocking side roads

Filling the streets

The University's proposals have already been rejected twice by South Cambs District Council, but the Government is now threatening to overrule this decision on the grounds that the centre would be of "national importance".

Many of those on today's demonstration were agreed that it was of national importance, with people from all over the country and beyond expressing their outrage alongside residents of Cambridge.

There was a heavy police presence (including horses) around the march, but little sign of any trouble.

For more information, visit:

SPEAC (Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge)