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Britain's last lion tamer: 'It's not the archaic Victorian practice people imagine' by Patrick Barkham

As the government commits to banning wild animals in English circuses, Thomas Chipperfield faces losing his livelihood and lifelong passion " but, he says, his job is not cruelThe last lion tamer in Britain is waiting to meet me outside a pub called the Showman in the West Midlands town of Bloxwich. If I'm expecting a mustachioed impresario " charismatic, bullwhip-wielding and perhaps a little shifty " I'm confounded…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:00am on February 28, 2018

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