Circus ads torn down
POSTER boards advertising a controversial circus with performing animals were removed and dumped outside the Civic Centre.
Great British Circus bosses say they are "unhappy" because the posters were placed with the council's approval.
Circus spokesman Chris Barltrop said: "In spite of the circus having behaved responsibly in following legitimate procedures, a high percentage of its poster-boards were left at the Town Hall by an unknown person.
"They were accompanied by an anonymous note claiming to be from 'a public-spirited citizen doing the council a favour' in removing the posters."
The arrival of the circus at the weekend on Essex Regiment Way has angered the Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS), which called on the public to boycott it.
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by kate curtis, braintree
Saturday, October 09 2010, 4:22PM
“In the last 100 years human understanding of the planet we live on and the animals with whom we share our world has grown enormously. We have made great strides in technology, medicine and learning. Yet how can we consider ourselves civilised whlst we continue to allow the suffering and abuse of animals simply for entertainment.
http://www.ad-international.org/campaigns/go.php?si=73”