A farming family who have become the target of a vicious animal rights campaign have been barred from using the local pub.
David Hall and Associates, who run Darley Oaks Farm, Newchurch, Staffordshire, have been asked not to go to the Red Lion in nearby Newborough, by the pubs brewery, The Union Pub Company.
It followed an online onslaught from the activists, who sent a barrage of emails and faxes via internet chat rooms.
The farm has been breeding guinea pigs which are sent away for medical research for more than 30 years, but campaigners have been battling to get the farm closed for five years.
The Save Newchurch Guinea Pigs group organises regular protests at the farm every weekend.
But they have now started hounding anyone who has connections with the Halls, such as local pubs, petrol stations, solicitors and vets, in a bid to get organisations to sever ties with the family.
No-one from SNGP could be contacted for comment today but its website has printed a letter from Leslie Porter, secretary of The Union Pub Company, to the family, asking them to no longer use the pub because of increased disturbance and threats relating to the Halls use of the Red Lion.
No-one from the Union Pub Company could be contacted for comment but a spokesman for the Red Lion said: We will be meeting with the brewery to find out what is going on.
We havent barred them - it is the brewery which asked them not to come in - and we certainly have no problem with the Halls.
Chris Hall, from the farm, said: I have a licence to do what I do and I dont have to prove anything, so I would rather not comment on the situation.
