New cultural festival revealed

Plans were unveiled today for the first ever arts festival to run alongside the Tour de France. The "Yorkshire Festival" was announced in a ceremony at a reservoir in the heart of Bronte country near Haworth.

The Tour itself, as we all know, is to to start in Yorkshire in July. But organisers of the cultural festival in the run up to the big event are keeping exact details of their plans a secret for a little while longer. Chris Kiddey reports.

The Yorkshire Festival will be staged in the run up to the Tour De France. The name of the event was marked by the unveiling of a hugh banner on a reservoir dam in Bronte country near Haworth today. Henrietta Duckworth from Yorkshire Festival explained what it's about.

The name of the cultural festival to be staged in the run up to the start of the Tour de France from our region has been revealed.

It's to be called the Yorkshire Festival and to mark the event a huge banner was unveiled on a reservoir dam in Bronte country near Haworth today.

But organisers say they won't reveal the full line of the festival until the end of January.