Seventy years ago, in a Southampton still basking in the post-war era, the arrival of a travelling circus was a spectacle that rarely raised an eyebrow of disapproval. The rumble of wagons, the roar ...

TO people of a certain age the name Billy Smart's Circus conjures up an image of magic and entertainment from a bygone era. Turn the clock back more than 30 years and the excitement of the big-top - ...

A circus where a woman says she was hurt when a trapeze artist fell on her has appealed for witnesses to the accident. Mother-of-two Lauren Marshall-Ainsworth was watching the trapeze artists at Billy ...

FOR over two centuries, audiences have flocked to the Big Top for high-wire thrills and slapstick clowning. The 250th anniversary of the circus is celebrated at Decades of Delight, a new exhibition at ...

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BILLY Smart's legendary travelling circus is on its way to Worcestershire. The circus, which first toured in the 1940s, sets up camp at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern on Tuesday, March 13, ...

All the fun of the big top without a dancing bear in sight. Billy Smart's Circus is an animal-free affair billed as a dazzling combination of theatre, dance and music. It has been voted Britain's best ...