The heat didn't stop runners donning costumes for annual five-mile race

HUNDREDS of runners braved the heat for this year's JCB Lakeside 5 and fun run, which raised more than £4,000 for charity.

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Almost 450 runners took on either a five-mile course or two-mile fun run around the picturesque JCB World HQ at Rocester.

The event raised £4,300 towards JCB's £2 million appeal for the NSPCC.

Former JCB employees Charles Bevan and Mick Grindey, 63, of Uttoxeter, have the unique distinction of having run in every single JCB Lakeside 5 since the first was held in 1983 a total of 40 races, three having been cancelled due to Foot and Mouth and Covid.

They were presented with mounted scale models of JCB backhoe loaders to honour 40 years of helping organise the JCB Lakeside 5.