Superlab shows power of lobbying

Published: 20 January, 2011

• THE Medical Research Council has a vast site at Mill Hill, in an open area with extremely low population density in comparison to the St Pancras site.  

The bringing into central London of such a facility, with the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation scheme, against the tide of decentralisation, is beyond reason.  

This building is not just a vanity-of-address project, it is for the convenience of those who will not travel even a few miles from the centre.

It just shows what can be done by lobbying in the right quarter.

In all the furore I have read about the present St Pancras building, I have seen scant debate about the morality of experimenting on our fellow creatures.  

I expect any animals will be delivered in the dead-of-night so that passers-by in this busy area cannot see what’s what, and kept in sound-proofed and fortress-like conditions. 

As there have been numerous large animals “used” at Mill Hill, one wonders how that will be managed at St Pancras.

JUNE GIBSON, NW11