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Great Eastern Half Marathon 2019 - Cancelled

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FenlandRunner Oct 2019 11:19am, 13 Oct 2019 2,787 posts	Quote Pin FenlandRunner Due to police incident. Hope this isn't 'fake' news.
FenlandRunner Oct 2019 11:20am, 13 Oct 2019 2,788 posts	Quote Pin FenlandRunner "Owing to a Police incident the Perkins Great Eastern Run has been cancelled. Further updates will be provided when we can. Apologies to all and thank you for your patience."
Schnecke Oct 2019 11:29am, 13 Oct 2019 7,581 posts	Quote Pin Schnecke Looks genuine - seems to be on Twitter. Not sure whether the race had actually started when they took the decision to cancel.
Rosehip Oct 2019 11:53am, 13 Oct 2019 13,844 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip I hope everyone is OK.
Rosehip Oct 2019 12:20pm, 13 Oct 2019 13,846 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip RACE CANCELLATION UPDATE: In the interest of safety for our participants we took the decision to cancel the half marathon half an hour after its original start time because of Police information that a man was acting suspiciously close to the route. - well that's sort of better than some of the rumours that were circulating. At least no one was hurt
FenlandRunner Oct 2019 12:23pm, 13 Oct 2019 2,789 posts	Quote Pin FenlandRunner Yep, I'd read those rumours Rosehip.
Ness Oct 2019 1:52pm, 13 Oct 2019 10,710 posts	Quote Pin Ness What a shame for the runners and a nightmare for the organisers.
swittle Oct 2019 1:57pm, 13 Oct 2019 57,509 posts	Quote Pin swittle huffingtonpost.co.uk
FenlandRunner Oct 2019 2:06pm, 13 Oct 2019 2,791 posts	Quote Pin FenlandRunner "Everyone went straight to the baggage reclaim tent, and it was while queueing there that a race official came around and said that there had been a 'bomb threat at mile 11'.
Rosehip Oct 2019 4:19pm, 13 Oct 2019 13,853 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra64mxnDLus&feature=youtu.be