Campaigners who want to close down a controversial monkey farm are entitled to hold regular demonstrations against it, as they did yesterday.

But what they must not do is wage a war of terror against staff at Shamrock Farm near Henfield.

Since the IRA stopped its bombing campaign, animal rights extremists have been among the worst terrorists in the UK. Some of them will stop at nothing.

Many people do not like the fact that Shamrock plays a part in the European vivisection industry.

But the farm acts strictly within Government guidelines and the

protesters should concentrate on getting the law changed.

Fanatics who attack law-abiding employees have no place in our society. They must be rooted out, arrested, convicted and punished.

And, while the work at Shamrock remains legal, police officers, whatever their own feelings, are there to uphold the law.

City faces

Twelve people in Brighton and Hove will soon have the best known faces in town.

Their pictures will be displayed on double-decker buses as part of The Place To Be campaign for Brighton and Hove to gain city

status.

They will be advertising an exhibition in Churchill Square from February 10 featuring all the 100 faces of people born in every year last century.

No one wants to look like the back of a bus, but being on the side of one is another boost for Brighton and Hove.

Students' clip art

Passers-by have been looking twice at the strange antics of drama student Sally Kettle and her friends in a Brighton shop window.

They've been sitting there, brushing their hair and clipping their nails before collecting the remains and weaving them into threads for costumes.

But some of the critics have displayed even worse personal habits ,including a group of youths who mooned at Sally.

That was a classic case of pots calling the Kettle black.

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