I WAS pleased to read that Burnley MP Peter Pike has signed a motion in the House of Commons calling for an inquiry into the animal experiment industry.

More than a century ago, painful experiments on animals were counted in hundreds per annum. They have increased ever since and there are now millions per annum.

This must certainly be considered the worst of man's abuses on his fellow creatures.

SHEILA BRENNAN (Mrs), Bombay Street, Blackburn.