Leading institutional investors have supported GlaxoSmithKline in its battle with animal rights extremists.

A man who attacked the boss of an animal research firm with a wooden stave has been jailed for three years.

The boss of an animal testing laboratory has been attacked by three masked people wielding baseball bats.

Shares in Huntingdon Life Sciences, the research laboratory brought to the brink of closure by animal activists, soared as investors cheered its rescue package.