Farmers Ferry sails this month
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• Despite threats of demos by animal rights groups, the chairman of Farmers Ferry, the new livestock ferry organised by Welsh farmers, says it will begin sailing between Dover and Dunkirk this month.
Terry Bayliss was speaking after protests mounted by the campaign group Compassion in World Farming at the Farmers' Union of Wales HQ in Aberystwyth on 5 August.
CIWF was trying to end the union's support of the project. "The union has pledged to continue backing us," says Bayliss. "This is a legal service meeting all livestock transport standards." He says hauliers who fail to meet the required standard will not be allowed to use the ferry. Alan Morris of the FUW met a delegation from CIWF last week to determine whether livestock hauliers could expect violence from animal rights activists as has happened previously. "They committed themselves to demonstrating," says Morris, "but have advised their members to protest peacefully." Bayliss urges animals rights protestors to be "sensible".