Quote Originally Posted by Llani Boy View Post
I received an e-mail yesterday informing me that Derby City Council have declared that Markeaton Park was not now available for the Derbys/Notts XC champs, due to take place this Saturday, because of "the state of the ground".
There's a few problems looming for XC and I hope it doesn't spill over on to the fells and other athletics events.

Both the Northern XC and National XC Champs have had to find new venues for 2023 after issues at the original venue.

I believe both were down to support received to re-wild sections of the land the races were to be on so they had to cancel.

I've also seen one Local Authority cancel a long-standing non-athletics annual event with no plans to bring it back, because they have ambitions to be carbon-neutral and the event and the 1'000s of visitors it attracts from around the country are not in keeping with those ambitions.

Pretty soon, we'll not be allowed to attend an event unless we can walk to it :/