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Lib Dem candidate Kelly-Marie Blundell to walk tightrope at Moscow State Circus

By Caron Lindsay | Tue 21st April 2015 - 11:18 pm

Kelly-Marie Blundell is nothing if not courageous and tenacious. For those of you who don’t know her, she’s our candidate in Guildford, a member of the party’s Federal Policy Committee and prominent member of the Social Liberal Forum. She’s been behind many of the excellent motions on welfare reform and food banks which have been passed at Liberal Democrat conference in the last few years.

She’s leading a lively campaign in Guildford, a seat held between 2001 and 2005 for the party by Sue Doughty. Just the other day, I saw that she was committed to many hustings meetings. But she’s managed to fit in fulfilling a lifelong ambition. Tomorrow morning at 9am, she’ll be doing this:

Tomorrow morning I’m at Moscow State Circus…. to walk the tight rope! #guildford

— Kelly-Marie Blundell (@KellyMarieLD) April 21, 2015

Clearly we are putting our parliamentary candidates under too much stress if this is what they do for a rest!

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The Independent View: Banning wild animals in circuses – a popular law whose time has come

By Jan Creamer | Mon 13th October 2014 - 3:55 pm

There was a time when the UK led the world on animal welfare issues. We were one of the first to ban the use of animals in cosmetic product and tobacco tests, and end fur farming. Sadly though, we have lost our global leadership on other animal issues, most spectacularly on animal circuses. A total of 27 countries have now introduced measures prohibiting such acts, leaving the UK lagging way behind.