The benefits of our circus (From Echo)

The benefits of our circus

I write in answer to R Williams, of Great Holland (Letters, August 4).

The posters to which I was referring were the ones in shops that animal rights campaigners took down or, pretending to be from the circus, informed the shop owners the circus had been cancelled for one reason or another.

Alternatively, businesses have been threatened by the suggestion they could receive a brick through their window, should the poster not be removed.

I was not referring to the £5.99 information boards and directional arrows, which since 1987 we, with the council’s knowledge, have erected and removed, saving bureaucracy and paperwork on both sides.

Unlike Mr Williams, the council sees the benefit of first class, correctly monitored family entertainment coming to a holiday area at no cost to the council taxpayer – not to mention 30 staff spending wages at local shops, and the circus purchasing hay, straw, animal feed and fuel from local suppliers and paying our rent etc, all of which must be good for the local economy

Martin Lacey
Great British Circus
Clacton