The circus is coming to town

Come one, come all, the circus is coming to town.

Next month the Santus family will be pulling out all the stops as they perform in Raynes Park and Putney.

Brothers Ernest and Roger Santus are members of some of France’s most illustrious circus families and will be taking on everything from from hand-balancing and trapeze to unicycling, juggling and acrobatics.

Boasting that it is the only circus in the UK to feature a flying trapeze, this year's show will feature performers from Mongolia, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, Britain and France.

It will be Raynes Park that will get the first glimpse of the show, with the performance due to take place on September 15 at Prince George's Playing Field.

Then a week later on September 22 the show will go on under the big top at Lower Common in Lower Richmond Road.