Activists damage livestock trucks
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• Animal rights activists caused up to £25,000 of fire damage to trucks at Warwickshire livestock haulier T Spiers & Sons last weekend.
Two tractors were torched at the company's Claverdon depot; one was completely destroyed. The police also found incendiary devices on Iwo other tractors but these were defused by an army bomb disposal team.
"We have never had an attack like this in 63 years of business," says director Geoff Spiers. He points out that the company is only involved in UK livestock work. The police say: "We are in no doubt that this was the work of the animal rights extremists."
0 Conservative parliamentary candidates in the North have received envelopes of razor blades by post. This was also thought to be the work of the activists.