Policing animal demos cost £400,000
Taxpayers have been left with a bill of more than £400,000 for the policing of live animal exports from a port in Kent, it's been revealed.
Animal export ban lifted at port
The owner of a Kent port has lifted its temporary ban on live animal exports weeks before it faced a High Court challenge over its decision.
Council abandons legal fight against live exports
Thanet Council has announced that it has lifted its ban on live animal exports through the Port of Ramsgate amid mounting legal costs.
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Council abandons live export fight
Thanet Council has announced that it has lifted its temporary ban on live animal exports through the Port of Ramsgate with immediate effect.
It says it will continue to pursue other avenues to stop the trade but has had to consider the high cost of continuing legal action.
A High Court hearing had been scheduled to take place on December 11 after exporters sought a judicial review into the council's decision to impose a temporary ban.
The council’s decision also follows news that Defra has been undertaking a review into an incident at the port in September in which more than 40 animals had to be slaughtered.
Ban lifted on live exports
Thanet Council has announced that following legal advice it has lifted its temporary ban on the movement of live animal exports through the Port of Ramsgate.
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Anger at live animal exports
Animal rights campaigners protest against live animal exports that have resumed at Ramsgate.
Read the full storyProtests at Ramsgate
Protesters hurled abuse at drivers and jostled with police as live animal exports resumed at a Kent port this morning. Seven trucks carrying sheep en route to the Continent passed through Ramsgate after a group of Dutch exporters won a court order overturning a ban on shipments.
About 100 animal rights campaigners gathered at the gates, at one point surrounding one of the lorry cabs as it tried to leave.
First pictures - live exports arriving in Ramsgate
Convoy of lorries arrive with live exports
We're now getting confirmation that six lorries containing sheep and lambs have arrived in Ramsgate for export, as the first delivery of live animals to the continent since the ban was overturned in the High Court, progresses.
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BREAKING NEWS: Live export trucks now arriving
Sheep and lambs have begun arriving in Ramsgate as live exports resume at the port.
Animal rights campaigners are watching for the first shipment of sheep since a ban on live animal exports was overturned.
The companies behind the exports won a High Court challenge earlier this week, saying Thanet District Council had no right to outlaw the practice.
Protesters return to Ramsgate as live exports resume
Animal rights campaigners are gathering in Ramsgate in preparation for the first shipment of sheep since a ban on live animal exports was overturned.
The companies behind the exports won a High Court challenge earlier this week, saying Thanet District Council had no right to outlaw the practice.
First trucks to arrive with sheep and lambs expected around now.
Animal exports decision today
A High Court judge will decide today whether to overturn a ban on live animal exports out of Ramsgate. They were suspended by Thanet District Council after dozens of sheep had to be put down at the port last month.
Protest over live animal exports
RSPCA vets and inspectors have joined demonstrators at the port of Ramsgate this morning. It is first time in a more than a decade that RSPCA inspectors have made welfare checks on live exports at ports.
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