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Parkrun faces uncertain future after losing race against time for June 5 return

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Parkrun has lost its race to restart on time after almost 300 landowners failed to give it the green light. One of Britain’s greatest public health initiatives finds itself left on the start line despite Lord Coe joining Olympic champion Greg Rutherford, government ministers and the Mayor of London in calling for all obstacles to be removed.

As of last night organisers had received 250 permissions out of a possible 589 - way short of the “80 to 90 per cent” critical mass required to relaunch the parkrun nationally.

They have pushed back the start date to June 26 in the hope that by then the remaining venues will have agreed - but there is no guarantee of that.

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