Thomas Cook demo in Nottingham

Leicester and Nottingham activists paid a visit to Thomas Cook in Nottingham last week to remind them of the disgusting trade in primates that they support by continuing to promote tourism to Mauritius.

Shoppers were slightly thinner on the ground than usual due to the biitter cold but we set up our banners and placards and energetically leafleted everyone, and were rewarded by a frequently sympathetic reaction from passers-by.

Some Nottingham folk had clealry made the connection between the pointlessness of testing drugs on animals when six recipients of leukaemia drug TGN1412 were at that moment either seriously ill or at death's door after receiving only 1/500th of the dose given to animals, (source: the Financial Times, quoting the Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency). What the animals suffered having been given such massive doses doesn't bear thinking about, despite the drug company's pathetic claims that no toxic reactions had occurred.

Quite a few shoppers stopped to chat and express their support. So the message is getting through to the public - when will it get through to Thomas Cook?? We'll keep on going back until it does ................