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Milly Ayers is going to Oxford University. Picture The Sunday Times A fairground worker will be the third student from a traveller family to be offered a place at Oxford University. Milly Ayers, 18, who is related to the founder of Billy Smart’s circus, was brought up in a caravan then a mobile home. Aged three, she used to collect players' £1 coins on a fairground. She left school at 13 and did her GCSEs on her own, scoring average grades. She has wanted to study at Oxford, which seemed “like a mythical place”, since her father gave her a jumper that said “I love Oxford Univ...

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Inside circus legend Gerry Cottle's wild life of coke binges and sex addiction His wild life led to bankruptcies, spells in rehab and brushes with the law, but Gerry Cottle's lifelong love affair with the circus made him one of Britain's greatest showmen Updated In its mid-Seventies heyday the Gerry Cottle Circus toured Britain with three different shows, each seating 1,500 people (Image: Getty Images) The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subs...

These pictures were taken in 1961 and show Billy Smart's Circus arriving in town. They were taken by the bridge opposite Knightsdale Road by the Marsh, where the Big Top would be pitched and the circus would be held. People have gathered to see the circus arrive and there is even a policeman on duty to keep order. There seem to be four elephants in the picture, coming through the tunnel trunk to tail carrying some rather fancily dressed elephant riders who are waving to the crowds. So eager were people to catch a glimpse of this sight, you can even see some youngsters on the hill tryi...