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Saturday, 30 December 2017

Scotland and Ireland ban wild animals from the big top as the traditional circus slowly disappears

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Thomas Chipperfield presents the last big cats to grace Peter Jolly's Circus, in 2014 “I remember the elephants - just.” Those...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017

The UK's Six Cities of Circus announced for Circus250

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the UK’s Six Cities of Circus – the places with the most significant circus heritage and best...
Friday, 15 December 2017

Order Circus Mania for Christmas!

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Roll up! Roll up! See the wondrous new face of  Circus Mania , 250 years in the making! Full of the remarkable tales of circus life tha...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

Circuses to see this Christmas!

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If you'd like to visit the circus this Christmas , there's probably one not far away! Here's a list of an incredible 23 s...
Friday, 24 November 2017

A Midsummer Night's Circus - short story

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A Midsummer Night's Circus As it first appeared in My Weekly With Britain's circuses currently off the road, here's...

Crowds queue to see Martin Lacey's British lions at Germany's Circus Krone

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Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Brexit, sentient animals and animal rights - a lesson from the circus

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So Theresa May 's government has voted that "animals can't feel emotions or pain." That's what the headline says ...
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Thursday, 9 November 2017

Wild animals to be banned from circuses in Ireland and maybe Italy

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Next year is the 250th anniversary of the circus , a global form of entertainment founded on horseback in London in 1768. But will t...
Sunday, 24 September 2017

Bobbo's Diary of a Clown - Part One: Chovy Shops and Unicycles

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How does a clown get his luggage from one end of a bus depot to the other? On a unicycle , of course! In the first of an exclusive...
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Monday, 4 September 2017

Circus Elephants ban in Illinois

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The fate of the traditional circus with animals has suffered another blow with Illinois becoming the first state in America to ba...
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