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His comments will come as a blow to the protest group SPEAK, TIMES RECOMMENDS which is trying to halt construction of a new animal research laboratory at Oxford. Wimbledon fears match- fixing in betting scam In a documentary to be screened tomorrow on BBC2 Singer, a Women at war: equal before professor of philosophy, comes face to face with , an the enemy Oxford neurosurgeon whose research involving monkeys has Gun gangs recruit eight- helped to develop pioneering ways of treating Parkinson’s year-olds disease.

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