Hundreds of people demonstrated in central Cambridge on Saturday 10th January against the University of Cambridge building a new primate testing facility [report, pictures and comments]. After the demo was over, a number of people went to Girton, where the laboratory is to be built, and blocked a section of the A14. The five people arrested appear tomorrow at the Cambridge magistrates' court [report]. A lot of controversy has surrounded the planning permission to build the lab, when the decision of the local council not to give permission was overruled.

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