{"id":35721,"date":"2019-12-08T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=35721"},"modified":"2019-12-08T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:46:19","slug":"saturday-in-covent-garden-the-great-christmas-pudding-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/saturday-in-covent-garden-the-great-christmas-pudding-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Research UK raises funds with 39th annual Great Christmas Pudding Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6IG7A4DvQc]<\/p>\n<p>Covent Garden\u2019s West Piazza was transformed into a rather unusual race track on Saturday 7th December for Cancer Research UK\u2019s annual Great Christmas Pudding Race.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The participants wore Christmas-themed costumes and competed on the obstacle course while carrying traditional Christmas puddings in their hands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What a fantastic day at The 39th Christmas Pudding Race \ud83d\ude06. Don&#8217;t worry if you missed out this year. Mr Pudding turns 40 in 2020, so the race will be bigger and better than ever. Updates coming soon. Btw Winners of best fancy dress pic below \ud83e\udd29 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christmas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/race?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#race<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cruk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cruk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HBvVvLRWu1\">pic.twitter.com\/HBvVvLRWu1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clare Delaney (@MsClareDelaney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsClareDelaney\/status\/1203983041745620993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winning team came to London all the way from Australia and were awarded for their efforts by an impersonator of Her Majesty the Queen &#8211; the resemblance was so canny, some people believed she was the real thing!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A huge well done to the Santa Roos this year\u2019s winners who travelled all the way from Australia to take part in The 39th Great Christmas Pudding Race &#8211; congratulations!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pbCZR9cO5L\">pic.twitter.com\/pbCZR9cO5L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr Pudding (@MrXmasPudding) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrXmasPudding\/status\/1203318118879285249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In between the qualifying races, spectators enjoyed music from jazz vocal girl group The Roxys.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Join us in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoventGardenLDN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CoventGardenLDN<\/a> this morning! It\u2019s all happening! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xl454fsROf\">pic.twitter.com\/xl454fsROf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr Pudding (@MrXmasPudding) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrXmasPudding\/status\/1203271044125069312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><br \/>\nAccording to statistics, one in two people get some form of cancer in their lifetime.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Picks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/from-virginia-to-london-confronting-antisemitism\/\">From Virginia to London: confronting antisemitism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/sex-education-should-be-reinforced-at-universities\/\">Sex education should be reinforced at universities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/sanguinarians-the-vampires-living-in-the-uk\/\">&#8220;Sanguinarians&#8221;: There are vampires living in the UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/top-5-weird-names-of-london-underground-stations\/\">Top 5 weird names of London Underground stations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Neringa Ruseckaite<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Neringa Ruseckaite<\/p>\n<p>Video: Neringa Ruseckaite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z6IG7A4DvQc] Covent Garden\u2019s West Piazza was transformed into a rather unusual race track on Saturday 7th December for Cancer Research UK\u2019s annual Great Christmas Pudding Race.\u00a0 The participants wore Christmas-themed costumes and competed on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":35722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,25,26,33,42],"tags":[627,1152,1154,1262,1332,1345,1579,1645,2071,2119,2128,2439,2745,2893,3769,4450,4587,5103,5433,6538,6753],"class_list":["post-35721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-arts","category-charity","category-christmas","category-culture","category-entertainment","tag-australia","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-research-uk","tag-charity","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-pudding","tag-covent-garden","tag-culture","tag-elf","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-food","tag-great-christmas-pudding-race","tag-health","tag-london","tag-news","tag-obstacle-course","tag-race","tag-santa-claus","tag-uk","tag-voice-of-london"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}