Animal rights groups launch new attacks

ANIMAL rights activists have unleashed a new wave of attacks, targeting an Oxford University college building and a pharmaceutical company employee.

The Animal Liberation Front said today it was responsible for leaving a device outside the home of the corporate controller of GlaxoSmithKline, Paul Blackburn, earlier this month.

Mr Blackburn is understood to have been abroad at the time but his wife and daughter were at the house. The device caused only minor damage.

A posting on the website Bite Back said the ALF had carried out the attack because GSK was a customer of the animal testing group Huntingdon Life Sciences.

It warned the company: "We have identified and tracked down many of your senior executives and also junior staff."

"Drop HLS or you will face the consequences. For all the animals inside HLS, we will be back."

Anti-vivisectionists also claimed responsibility for an attempted arson attack at Corpus Christi College sports pavilion in Oxford on Saturday.