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Northern Athletics Road Relays Championships 
The  6 & 4 stage relays plus the Young Athletes Road Relays will be held on the 2nd October at Wythenshawe Park Manchester. Prospectus for all Road Relays and Online Entry is now available for down from Event Page

Northern Athletics Cross Country Relay Championships
Northern Athletics 1st Annual Cross Country Relays will be held at Graves Park, Sheffield on 9th October 2010. The prospectus and the Online Entry for this are now available on the Event Page 

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Paul Naylor

It was with great sadness that we heard of the death of Paul Naylor on Monday 12th July. Paul was best known as a Field Official but he worked tirelessly in other areas of athletics.

Northern Athletes at European and IAAF Junior Champs

Northern Athletics sends its best wishes to the following athletes from our region who have been selected to represent GB & Northern Ireland in the coming European Championships July 27-1 August and the IAAF Junior Champs July 19-25

John Gurney

We are sorry to report the death last Monday (5th July)of leading North Eastern Counties Technical Official John Gurney after a long illness. John's funeral takes place at Durham Crematorium on Wednesday, July 14 at 10.30am.

Pennine Lancashire 5k

This year the Northern Athletics 5k championship was incorporated into the Pennine Lancashire 5k rod race, which also included the England Athletics championship. The Northern Athletics championship race was again hosted by Blackburn Harriers, but this time the race was based not in the town centre, but at Witton Park, with the event again using closed roads. The out and back course started outside the park running towards Blackburn before finishing inside Witton Park. The combined entry for the race was almost 250 athletes, with almost half being in the N.A. championships event. The race was started at the top of the hill on Preston Old road, and the early fast pace never abated, despite the blustery conditions.

John Lunn 1942-2010

We have just heard the very sad news that John Lunn, Leeds City stalwart, Northern Athletics archivist and man of many talents too numerous to list here, died in his sleep on 21 June 2010. Our condolences go to Dorothy, Matthew and all John's family and friends. His humour, knowledge, enthusiasm and terrible T Shirts will be greatly missed by us all.