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• BBC - Protect circus animals call

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/201483.stm
  Big top owners and animal welfare groups are demanding a change in the law to protect circus animals.

• BBC News: 'Care orders' for suffering animals

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/981572.stm
  A bill to allow commercial animals suffering cruelty to be "taken into care" has been backed by peers. The Protection of Animals (Amendment) Bill would apply to farm and circus animals, guard dogs, sniffer dogs, and animals kept in pet shops in England and Wales.

• BBC News: Animals banned from Big Top

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1092844.stm
  Singapore bans wild animals being used in circus shows, citing concerns about public safety and the welfare of animals.

• BBC News: Circus mass ends Vatican jubilee

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1075294.stm
  By David Willey in Rome. The Pope holds a special mass dedicated to the world of entertainment, in St Peter's Square. "Healthy entertainment is good for body and soul," the Pope said.

• BBC News: Jumbo race 'a big success'

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/835737.stm
  Europe's first elephant races goes ahead near Berlin despite protests from animal rights groups.

• Guardian - Fury at 'paltry' fine on circus trainer

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/10/audreygillan
  Animal rights campaigners condemned the fine instead of a jail sentence imposed yesterday on the circus trainer. By Audrey Gillan.

• Guardian - Tears of a clown

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/apr/07/arts.law
  The precarious status of the circus in the UK. By Dea Birkett.

• Guardian - The show must go on

  http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/feb/06/weekend7.weekend1
  When Mary Chipperfield was convicted of cruelty to her baby chimp last week, the most famous name in British circus was disgraced. But animal protesters have been targeting circuses for years, regardless of how they treat their animals. Hounding them out of business is no answer. By Dea Birkett.

• Observer - 'The chimp is screaming. Mary lashes at the tiny animal with a riding crop'

  http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jan/31/theobserver.uknews
  Mary Chipperfield, the youngest member of the 300-year-old circus dynasty, will be sentenced next month. Her crimes emerged when animal rights activists Terry Stocker and Rachel White infiltrated the Chipperfield circus. The Observer has obtained the activists' secret diaries, which paint a brutal picture of the dark side of circus life.

• Protesters try to stop Shriners' circus

  http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/montreal.html
  Protest in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.

• The Florida Times-Union - Ringling elephant mistreated?

  http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/013198/2b1DEAD_.html
  One year after beginning his career with The Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, Kenny the baby elephant died in Jacksonville after performing two shows in one day. By Derek L. Kinner.

 

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