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Bikers Eggstravaganza

Northumberland Bikers’ Annual Easter Egg Run are once more asking for public support. The event has taken place every year for the past 16 years with. The bikers have the approval of Blyth Valley Council and the Police to demonstrate their own support for this good cause with a parade of bikes throughout the district.

The bikers will gather south of Blyth at the old Meggies Burn campsite (A193) at 12pm where the road will be down to one lane to allow for safety measures. They will then pass through Blyth High Street at 12.30-45 and are urging the public to come out and support them here this year more than ever. The council have given permission for a special collection in aid of the Blyth Valley Lifeboat Service at this location.

The bikers will then stop to collect eggs at the Windmill, Blyth, the Clayton Arms, Dudley, The Blake Arms, Seghill, The Hastings, Seaton Delaval, The Blue Bell, Bedlington, Fuggles, Barrington Ind Estate and finally to the Bebside, Blyth.

All eggs need to be handed in to one of these pubs so that a count of the biggest collection will allow the Egg Trophy to go to the biggest point for collection. On Easter Sunday the bikers will began distributing the eggs to hospitals, hospices, old people’s and children’s homes throughout the region.

Gordon Fitch, Chairman of the Northumberland Bikers says: “This event is for a really good cause, most of the elderly and infirm receiving the eggs are taken aback with the thought that goes behind this simple gesture.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .