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

Fur Free Britain, a coalition of animal protection groups, handed in a petition today calling for a ban on the import and ...

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 ...

Charlotte Dujardin, a dressage champion for Team GB, has withdrawn from the 2024 Paris Olympics. This is due to recently-surfaced footage, taken four years ago of her whipping a horse repeatedly ...

A rabbit farm franchiser is vying to set up a further rabbit meat and fur farm in Lyndon Top, Rutland. He has already had planning refused at sites in Cornwall and Buckinghamshire. Our investigators ...