UK Firm Caves to Pressure From Animal Rights Group

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Stockbroker forced to drop animal-testing lab

 

BY DANIEL MCGRORY

 

ANIMAL activists yesterday forced Britain's biggest stockbroker to abandon

its links with the controversial drug-testing company Huntingdon Life

Sciences (HLS).

After a series of violent attacks on its offices and threats to staff,

managers at TD Waterhouse announced that it was to stop dealing shares in

the Cambridgeshire laboratory.

 

Protesters claim that this latest defection by a major City concern casts

further doubt on the laboratory's chances of survival.

 

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-116345,00.html

 

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UK Firm Caves to Pressure From Animal Rights Group

 

LONDON (Reuters Health) - Brokerage firm TD Waterhouse has severed links

with embattled UK drug testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences, following

pressure from animal rights protesters.

 

Waterhouse told clients Tuesday that it would stop holding shares in

Huntingdon on behalf of clients in nominee accounts. The move comes a week

after rival online broker Charles Schwab made a similar decision.

 

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