Please object to NIRAH Planning
Application
NIRAH have now submitted their planning
application and objections must be received by Monday
19th February at the latest. It is important
that Bedfordshire County Council are made aware of the strength
of opposition at this stage, so please take the time to contact
them and let them know your views.
Comments can be made in writing, quoting
application reference number BC/CM/2006/32, and sent to the
NIRAH Team, Bedfordshire County Council, County Hall, Cauldwell
Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP or by email to nirah.team@bedscc.gov.uk
Alternatively you can use this letter template (Objection
to Planning Application) which requires only your signature
and contact details to be added, or you can use the comments
form provided by Bedfordshire County Council.
The planning application can be viewed
online here
More information about the NIRAH project can be found on
their website at www.nirah.org
Further information and arguments against
the NIRAH project can be found at... www.bedfordanimalaction.org or www.captiveanimals.org or here and
for full back ground why not take a look here
Please help us to stop this aquarium and
research centre from going ahead by registering your objections
by the deadline of Monday 19th February and
please pass on to any other like-minded people or groups.
Thank you once again for your support.
  
Take a look at the conduct of two
hunt masters from the region...
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Hunt Supporters accused
An anti-hunting activist has accused hunt
supporters of breaking his car window and assaulting him
while he was monitoring hunts.
Mike Huskisson, was filming a hunt at Gillingham on Saturday
and alleges that someone at the Waveney Harriers meet smeared
mud on his camera lens and grabbed him by the throat.
Police are already investigating who smashed a window of
Mr Huskisson’s car during a joint meet of the Suffolk
Foxhounds and Waveney Harriers at Wissett. Police attended
to investigate the broken window, but Mr Huskisson has not
yet reported the most recent incident.
The LACS monitor said: ‘I saw nothing illegal at the
actual hunt. But when I returned to my car the damage I found
certainly was illegal. A Suffolk police spokesman said: “We
are investigating it. We would ask anyone with information
to contact PC Carl Watson on 01986 835 300.”
Hunt supporters vow to overturn
ban
12th February 2007
 HUNT
supporters last night pledged to overturn the “ridiculous” fox-hunting
ban as the two-year anniversary of its launch looms.
Thursday will mark two years to the day since the Government
passed a ban on fox-hunting.
And a major meet was held at 10.45am on Saturday, at Glemham
Hall, in Little Glemham, near Woodbridge, ahead of the milestone.
Turkey waste 'was linked to bird flu'
11th February 2007
Offcuts and a telltale label led investigators
to link outbreak at Bernard Matthews farm with its Hungarian
businesses
Dumped turkey waste, offcuts and a telltale
label provided the evidence that allowed investigators to
link the outbreak of bird flu at the Bernard Matthews farm
in Suffolk and the company's business in Hungary, The Independent
on Sunday has learnt.
The revelations come as the Environment minister Ben Bradshaw
said the company could face prosecution for a "biosecurity
breach" at the plant in the village of Holton.
Investigators believe that the virus got into turkey sheds
at the farm from offcuts and waste from the imported meat,
which was processed at the site. They add that a label found
at the plant suggests that the company was "economical
with the truth" about how close its Hungarian operations
were to an eruption of the disease in the country last month
Bernard Matthews Ltd risks prosecution
over 'safety breaches'
11th February 2007
Bernard Matthews's company could
face prosecution for safety breaches leading to Britain's
first outbreak of bird flu, a government minister said
yesterday.
Ben Bradshaw, the junior environment minister handling the
crisis, accused the firm of a "biosecurity breach" at its
farm in Holton, Suffolk, where 159,000 turkeys were slaughtered
in an attempt to contain the disease last weekend. He added
that "court action" could result.
The move comes as evidence emerges which, investigators believe,
links the arrival of the deadly H5N1 virus on the farm to
meat imported from the company's operations in Hungary -
and as fears grow that infected meat may have reached supermarket
shelves
Bernard Matthews faces ‘illegal’ imports
inquiry
9th February 2007
 Bernard
Matthews is under investigation by the Government amid concerns
that the company has imported poultry from inside an avian
flu exclusion zone in Hungary, it emerged last night.
The company, Britain’s largest turkey
producer, is also being investigated for breaking EU hygiene
regulations by leaving processed poultry outside sheds on
its food processing site at Suffolk, where a lethal strain
of bird flu was detected last week, according to senior Whitehall
sources.
Another three of the units of the 22 at
the Bernard Matthews farm in Holton, Suffolk, have tested
positive for H5N1, it emerged last night, raising fears that
the virus was more entrenched than originally hoped. Government
scientists will be looking at establishing how the virus
spread from hut to hut, or whether all four huts suffered
separate, independent infections from the same source
Nirah parks up for a long stay
8th February 2007
 The
Nirah Project has taken its first steps towards construction.
On Tuesday, Bedfordshire County Council
received a measure allowing it to take over the lease on
land at Elstow.
The land, currently part of the Elstow waste
transfer unit, will become part of a car park for the aquatic
life research centre
Tests show bird flu is H5N1 virus
7th February 2007
The avian flu which killed 2,600
turkeys at a Suffolk farm has been confirmed as the H5N1
virus. The strain can be fatal if it is passed
on to humans but experts said the outbreak was being contained
and posed little danger to people.
A spokesman for Bernard Matthews,
which runs the farm in Holton, said none of the affected
birds had entered the food chain and there was no risk
to health. The 159,000 other
turkeys on the farm will now have to be slaughtered
How turkey farms work
6th February 2007
More than 22 million
turkeys are produced for meat in the UK each year. Most
are reared intensively on farms like the one operated by
the Bernard Matthews company at Holton, Suffolk, which
suffered a birdflu outbreak in February 2007
Flu outbreak: Dead
bird figures
3rd February 2007
MORE than 2,000 turkeys have died after an outbreak of bird
flu at a poultry farm in Suffolk, it was revealed today.
Government vets are continuing to investigate at the Bernard
Matthews site at Holton, near Halesworth, where it was originally
thought around 1,000 birds had died. The figure has now been
reported by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (Defra) as 2,617.
A Defra spokesman said the birds had started to die on Tuesday
and that Defra had been alerted on Thursday after 860 turkeys
died. On Friday 1500 turkeys died, she said.
 Today
animal rights protesters covered dairy products and beef
with red paint in the ASDA supermarket in Cambridge. The
action was in designed to highlight the link between live
exports and the milk industry.
According to a spokesperson for campaigners “when
consumers buy milk products they are supporting the inhumane
export of young male calves from the milk industry to other
European countries, the animals, if they get there alive
may be subject to conditions so inhumane they are illegal
in the UK” .
 Mystery
illness kills 1,000 birds
2nd February 2007
Government vets are investigating
an outbreak of an illness which has killed 1,000 turkeys
on a farm in Suffolk.
The birds are being tested for a number of diseases at
a farm, understood to be near Halesworth, including avian
flu
Man 'targeted' after shooting dog
1st February 2007
AN ESSEX man claims he is being
targeted by animal rights protesters who are angry he
shot a woman's “out of control” pet dog.
John Sait has been the subject of demonstrations and
protests in Brightlingsea after he shot a German Shepherd
dog on a field in Thorrington, which later died.
Mr Sait said he had been advised by his solicitor not
to go into detail about the incident but he did not
deny shooting the dog, claiming it was out of control
and its owner “nowhere to be seen”
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