Elderly elephant retired
“A circus has hit back after animal rights protesters called for the public to boycott performances over the treatment of their Indian elephant.” - Daily Post North Wales
Tusker Of Love Over A Circus Elephant
“Elephant Anne who is with Bobby Roberts Circus on the Common in Marlborough is at the centre of an ongoing controversy.” - This Is Wiltshire
Call to boycott circus over use of elephant
“Animal rights campaigners are urging people to boycott performances of Bobby Roberts’ Super Circus at Huntingdon Racecourse over the presence of an elderly elephant.” - Cambridge News
Big top protests in Northampton over circus elephant
“Animal rights protestors have launched a series of demonstrations outside a circus in Northampton, angered by the presence of a 55-year-old elephant named Anne.” - Northampton Chronicle and Echo
Zoo welcomes killer circus elephant
“Two circus elephants have arrived at their temporary new home at Dubbo’s Western Plains Zoo in far western New South Wales, after one of them crushed its 54-year-old handler on Boxing Day.” - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Hope for Anne the elephant
“Anne, the last circus elephant, has been given fresh hope of being released from captivity to spend her retirement in freedom.” - Sunday Mirror
The last circus elephant
“Anne is 54. Her owners insist they love her but animal activists want to rescue her. She is the.. Last circus elephant” - Mirror.co.uk
Anne: last of the circus elephants all alone at 54
“Animal rights activists say that it’s cruel for the elderly star of the ring to appear in public, even to pose with children for photos. But others say that she needs people around her ” - The Observer
No big tent for elderly elephant
“The last touring elephant in Britain will not enter the big tent in Ayrshire after animal campaigners raised objections.” - BBC NEWS
Circus Defends Use Of Anne The Elephant
“The group slated the circus for being one of just eight circuses in the UK to use animals, including horses, camels and an elephant. It argued that Anne was transported from site to site so that visitors could have their photo taken with her, despite the fact that she had arthritis.” - St. Albans Observer
Let poor Anne pack her trunk and say ‘goodbye’ to the circus
“Anne is a 52-year-old Asian elephant - the oldest elephant in the UK and only elephant remaining in a UK circus.” - GMTV
Jumbo-size protest
“Animal welfare campaigners have protested at a circus in Trafford with England’s only “performing” elephant.” - ManchesterOnline
