The uphill area of the city will be filled with festive cheer and Santa outfits next month for the 2019 Lincoln Santa Fun Run & Walk, but the event is looking for more entrants and a main sponsor.
As previously reported, the 14th Lincoln Santa Fun Run, which is due to take place from 11.30am on Sunday, December 15, will have a new route.
Entries are currently coming in steadily, with the 1,000 mark fast approaching. The event has room for 2,500 participants and there is still plenty time to enter.
The entry fee is £12 (children under five and dogs are free) and this includes a Santa suit and finishing medal.
Peter Harrold from the Rotary Club of Colonia told The Lincolnite: “The numbers were down last year, partly because of another Christmas commercial event that was then cancelled, but we are confident the numbers will go back up this year.
“It is a fantastic atmosphere, a run or walk, and it is open to anybody. Christmas starts there and it feels very festive. It is a great community event and a great fundraiser for charity.”
The new route
Due to extensive building work taking place around Lincoln Cathedral it has not been possible to include Minster Yard in the 2019 route.
The route will once again take place in the uphill area of the city with a grand finish in Castle Square. The two lap course will start in The Westgate and runners can choose to complete just the first lap (2.6km) or continue on a further 2km for lap two.
The 2019 route – Lap 1.
The second lap starts at Westgate near the water tower before participants will turn left onto Union Road. The rest of the route is as follows:
A left turn onto Drury Lane will follow before running into and through Castle Square and into the Bailgate
Turn right into Eastgate, turn left at The Lincoln Hotel into Northgate and bear left on Northgate leading into Church Lane
Turn left into Newport towards Newport Arch, through Newport Arch into the Bailgate
Turn right into Westgate, turn left into Union Road, turn left into Drury Lane running into Castle Square
Lap 1 runners finish in Castle Square
For Lap 2 run through Castle Square into the Bailgate and repeat Lap 1 finishing in Castle Square
Lincoln Santa Fun Run 2019 – Lap 2.
Any businesses interested in becoming the main sponsor should contact Peter Harrold on 07770 406883 or via email at [email protected]
Peter added: “The event will definitely go ahead and we are looking for a main sponsor. It will make a difference to how much is raised for charity. The main sponsor will have the event named after them, and their name on banners and posters, and they can also enter a team.”
The event will raise money for around 12 different local charities, including Umbrellas, St Barnabas Hospice and St Andrews Hospice.
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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