RoADs to BE shut for run

roundabout, Priestgate, Cathedral Square, Long Causeway and Broadway will all be closed between 9.30am and Hundreds of runners of 10.45am. All otherroadsalong all shapes and sizes will be the route will be closed from pounding the streets this 9.30am until 2pm. However, weekend as the Perkins Great as the last runner passes each

mile point, that road junction Eastern Run comes to the city.

will reopen. Whileamateurathleteswillbe The mile points and apraising thousands of pounds proximate reopening times for charity, a series of road are: 1 mile - 11am - Broadclosures will be put in place way to Northminster; 2 mile to keep the runners safe. - 11.15am - Park Road to Park

Boththehalfmarathonand Crescent; 3 mile - 11.30am - the Anna’s Hope fun run will Fulbridge Road to Foxdale; 4 start and finish on The Emmile- 11.45am- PastonRidings bankment. The 5km fun run to Witham Way; 5 mile - 12pm starts at 10am on Sunday Oc- Corfe Avenue to Rockingtober 9andthehalf marathon ham Grove; 6 mile - 12.15pm follows at 10.30am. Rivergate, - Lincoln Road to Staverton Bourges Boulevard (southRoad; 7 mile - 12.30pm - Davbound) from the Queensgate id’s Lane to Hodgson Avenue; 8 mile - 12.45pm - Fulbridge Road to Aster Drive ; 9 mile - 1pm- DonaldsonDrivetoPratt Avenue ; 10 mile - 1.15pm - FulbridgeRoadtoTennysonRoad ; 11 mile - 1.30pm - Dogsthorpe Road to Park Road; 12 mile - 1.45pm - Eastfield Road to Boongate; 13 mile - 2pm - Embankment - finish.

Annette Joyce, service director for city services and communicationsat Peterborough City Council said: “With the Perkins Great Eastern Run fast approaching it’s important residents and businesses take note of these road closures. Theraceisoneofthe biggest events on our annual calendar andweexpect many hundredsofresidentsandvisitors to come out and support therunnersalongthecourse.”