There has been good and bad news this year for Beagles used in Laboratories and for us at Run Free Alliance. In July we reeled from the shock announcement that planning permission had been granted to B&K Universal Ltd in Hull to enable them to breed an additional 2000 Beagles for use in laboratories. The Home office statistics for 2014 were produced in a different format making it very difficult to form a year on year comparison of their use. We do know 2589 dogs (majority of which are Beagles) were euthanized after use in UK. The good news is that we became the only UK Charity advocating for the care and welfare of Beagles in UK Laboratories and have since been recognised by HMRC to claim Gift Aid (25%) on donations made by UK taxpayers. We have become members of APGAW (All Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare) and have spoken on behalf of Beagles at their meetings. We continue to raise awareness via our FB page, Twitter and at outside events. Your continued support is invaluable in our effort to end this practice. The petition we have in place has reached 119500 signatures ( including paper signatures) and we hope to be in a position to present this to 10 Downing Street at the most opportune time in the near future. THANK YOU from us all