EXETER Friends For Animals will be in Exeter High Street, by Bedford Square, today as part of a day of action organised by Animal Aid to highlight the involvement of medical research charities in vivisection,

Local campaigner Martin Fox said: "While the target charities conduct a lot of valuable work, we want to persuade them to stop funding cruel and unreliable animal experiments.

"Modern non-animal methods allow us to obtain data that is more accurate and relevant to human health, and therefore more likely to lead to effective treatments."