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The animals at Paradise Wildlife Park are all very well looked after and loved by the staff and at least the animals don't have to worry about poachers or being eaten by another predator. As some one else said in a post, you can visit the Speedway Museum without having to ago round the Wildlife Park but you would miss seeing some beautiful lions, tigers, snow leopards, etc.

I guess you can call the team 'England' with an English Red Lion on the body colour but not the Union Flag as we Scots don't have any International class riders at the moment, but hopefully we will in the years to come. If we do, then we could revert to the Union Flag and call the team, 'Great Britain'.

Dave, (and others) re your comments on this year's Celebration of Speedway. Yes, the admission previously was £5 for the Speedway exhibition but fans could still wander round the excellent Wildlife Park too. There was a problem when non-Speedway people were visiting the Park and paying the full price of £15-£17 and when they found out that Speedway folk were getting in for £5 they were most upset as you can imagine and caused the staff a lot of grief. This year, the WSRA and the Wildlife Park agreed that we set a £10 entry fee across the board so that the regular Park visitors were not upset and that the entry money would be split between the WSRA and the Park. Despite what a few folk may think, the Speedway Museum is NOT a money-maker for Paradise Wildlife Park. On the contrary, the Museum costs the Park a lot of money subsidizing it throughout the year and without Peter Sampson and his family, there would be no Speedway Museum. The Museum, the Events Marque and the outdoor displays were packed all day but we don't get those numbers for Speedway every week! Yes, it would have been good to have something at High Beech but the Celebration is such a lot of hard work for the WSRA volunteers and the Park staff that it was physically impossible although I believe that Terry Stone had something at High Beech on the 19th February.