Parkrun, including the event at Gunnersbury, will not be returning on June 5 as hoped.

More than 250 events in England obtained landowner permission to return, however this fell far short of the number needed for it to return on June 5 as hoped.

Parkrun UK is now aiming to resume all 5k events across England on Saturday 26 June, and a final decision will be made on this on Friday 11 June.

In a statement, Nick Pearson, Parkrun Global CEO, said: "We will continue to work hard with landowners over the coming weeks to secure the permissions needed to return at the end of June.

"We are incredibly grateful to all of the landowners who have granted events permission to return so far, and for the groundswell of support for Parkrun over recent days.

"Although it is disappointing not to be able to return on 5 June, we are still optimistic that we can return Parkrun events to nearly 600 communities across England very soon.

"We will do everything we can to ensure events restart on 26 June."

The three-week delay comes as many permission requests got caught up in "unnecessary red tape and lengthy internal bureaucracy at a local level".

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