Terry Eakin clocked a useful 18:12 in placing 20th in Wednesdays Newry 5k. On the same night, Lauren Scott opened her season over 800m with 2:17.5 running as a guest in the T&F match at Loughborough. A few days earlier, Robin Brown won the Cambridge county senior 1500 at a very windy St Ives – in 4:09.61.