The `great` british circus are performing in Leicester, at Leicester Road, Glen Parva on the A426.

This circus have many animals including lions, tigers, zebras, camels, llamas, horses, ponies, goats and reindeer. Animals in circuses lead a pathetic, miserable existence, performing unnatural, demeaning tricks in the ring and tied up or caged between performances. Their home is nothing more than a mobile prison.

Join the protest Tuesday 29th 6pm at the Circus, (or 4.30pm from Nottingham - see  http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=277)

Feb'08 demo report:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390504.html

In solidarity with the Nottingham activist arrested at recent demo in Lecestershire ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/397520.html) there will be a demonstration against experiments on animals conducted by Nottingham University, on Thursday 8th May -  http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=53

Nottingham University has been the subject of Animal Aid's Mad Science Awards, which in 1997 featured animals bred in solitary confinement at Nottingham University to act as an "animal model" of human anxiety and depression.

Ten years later nothing has changed at University of Nottingham where rats' screams of pain were recorded:

"In a collaborative behaviour study with the University of Ireland, male rats [at Nottm University] were injected with formalin - a toxic chemical that causes considerable and lasting pain.

They were then put inside a perspex chamber that administered repeated electric shocks to their feet. A microphone was placed above the chamber to record the rats' cries of pain, communicated in ultrasound."