Monkey Business

MONKEY BUSINESS AT NO.10
Protesters dressed in monkey outfits accompanied an MP to Downing Street to demand a total ban on primate testing in the UK.

Liberal Democrat Norman Baker handed in a petition with 163,000 signatures on it.
It marked the launch of a "Next of Kin" campaign organised by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV).
It has the backing of celebrities comic Alexei Sayle, sports presenter Helen Chamberlain and actress Jenny Seagrove are backing the campaign.
Home Office figures for 2003 show that more than 3,000 non-human primates were used in the UK, a rise of 20% on the previous year.
The campaign organisers say the procedures are liable to have caused "pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm," but alternatives are available.
Less than 20% of medical primate use is for medical research, with 70% for pharmaceutical companies.