ANIMAL rights protestors braved lashing rain and high winds at the weekend to join an annual rally on Dover seafront.

The campaigners travelled to the port from across the country to remember their colleague Jill Phipps, who died nine years ago in Coventry during a demonstration.

Activists threw a wreath into the sea in memory of the animals exported across the Channel for slaughter on the continent.

Organisers of the rally have pledged to continue their protests in the hope of persuading all ferry owners to stop transporting live cargo.