An airline passenger terrified fellow passengers by referring to a bomb on board the aircraft, a court has heard. He had earlier heard Mr Jandoo make the reference to the bomb while the plane was stationary at Inverness, Stornoway Sheriff Court heard.Mr Jandoo, 47, denies five charges including breach of the peace for making references to a bombon 15 March last year.The court heard that passengers on board the aircraft were visibly upset at Mr Jandoo's comment. Staff removed Mr Jandoo's laptop from him and put it in a locker.The court also heard from another passenger, Joanna Hall. She said she noticed Mr Jandoo staring at her on several occasions and that this made her feel "uncomfortable". "It's the poor treatment of meat chickens - because of the leg disorders they develop in the latter part of their development This affects tens of millions of birds a month," he says. Wild capture still takes place and many animals die in capture or in transit. When they are sold, the new owners often don't keep them in adequate conditions." The organisation is just about to start a major new investigation, but is resolutely tight-lipped about what it entails.What should animal welfare organisations be concentrating on? Donald Broom is professor of animal welfare at Cambridge University's Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine He is unequivocal about what the most pressing issue is.

While we obviously don't expect to find anything on that scale here, there are concerns about reptiles, such as lizards, snakes and tortoises, as well as birds. "We are already looking at the issue of exotic animals kept as pets. A year ago, IFAW in the US found 24 tigers that were being kept in someone's backyard in New York State. "Current animal welfare legislations is 94 years old and we really don't want it to pass its centenary," says Bowles.The IFAW, by contrast, is still deciding what to concentrate on next. "In the first instance, we'll be monitoring hunting, but we're still talking at the moment about what direction we will take after the ban," says Sanders. "It's simply a myth that we're going to move on to shooting and fishing.

It would be silly for us to open up a whole new area when there is no public and political support for it," he says - though he concedes that "snaring is a problem from an animal welfare point of view".The RSPCA intends to work on up to eight high-profile campaigns this year, focusing on conditions for broiler chickens (817 million reared annually) and laying hens; the impact of European Union chemical testing legislation on research animals (2.8 million of them in the UK); action from the EU on the importation of birds caught in the wild (numbers unknown); and a push in the UK to get the Animal Welfare Bill brought into law (which would apply to 14 million cats and dogs, a million horses and numerous small domestic animals). "The RSPCA has no plans whatsoever to do any work on hunting or fishing," echoes David Bowles, the organisation's Head of Campaigns. Two of the organisations, those with the most money and public support - the IFAW and the RSPCA - are unequivocally against a campaign."We have no plans to campaign against shooting in the UK," says IFAW's Gill Sanders. "We are trying alert the public to the fact that hundreds of horses die each year in racing or training," says Tyler.However, while the hunting ban united the animal welfare lobby, campaigns against shooting are likely to divide it. "We're calling for a total ban on the production of birds to be shot for sport.

We estimate that only a quarter of all the birds reared are actually eaten - the others either die before the shoots or are shot and then buried It's revolting. As soon as hunting is off the radar, we hope that anti-bloodsports campaigners will join us." Tyler is concerned about the use of animals for drug-testing - and what he sees as increasing government powers to outlaw peaceful protest. "At the moment there's an element of hysteria about animal rights protests. A significant number of court injunctions have been granted that severely threaten campaigners and members of the public's right to protest." While he acknowledges that some people in the movement engage in threats and property damage, he says that the injunctions and new laws against animal rights protesters are dangerous "We are very concerned about this," he says AnimalAid, too, has an anti-racing campaign.

The organisation has produced two reports on UK companies that arrange game-hunting trips. It is also campaigning for better conditions for greyhounds in the racing industry.Commercial game shooting is also a big concern for AnimalAid. "We have been investigating this for five years," says Andrew Tyler, its director. We'll be monitoring the ban for a while, but we are also looking at commercial game shooting," says a spokesperson.