HUNDREDS of bikers flooded the roads this Easter Sunday as the popular Durham Easter Egg Run returned for the first time since the start of the Covid pandemic.
The mass ride-out sees hundreds of bikers ride to Darlington and Durham hospitals to deliver Easter eggs to poorly children.
The last run in 2019 before the Covid pandemic was thought to be a record-breaker, with around 900 bikers taking part.
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The bikers departed from the the Durham Tesco in Dragonville at 10am on Easter Sunday morning, April 17, to travel en-masse to Darlington Memorial Hospital.
After a break at the hospital to enable the children to see the bikes and to deliver Easter eggs to the children's wards, the convoy then returned to Durham to deliver eggs to the University Hospital.
Every year hundreds of people line the streets to wave the bikers past and Tony said alongside bringing a smile to poorly children's faces, the community element of the run is a huge part of its appeal.
Speaking before this year's run, organiser Tony Hudspith from Hartlepool said: "There's a lot of excitement around it.
"Obviously over the years to have built it up, it was getting to be a really big event and we're just hoping that people will still have the enthusiasm for this year's as we are hoping people will have missed it."
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