Tour de France 2014: Le Grand Depart in Yorkshire
Welcome to the place to find out everything about the 2014 Grand Depart
Gary Verity: Yorkshire has a taste for cycling now
The Prime Minister has paid tribute to Yorkshire in the Commons today for the way the county staged the biggest ever Tour De France Grand Depart.
His praise comes as a survey conducted over the weekend says a quarter of the UK population now wants to visit the county and a third have changed their opinion of Yorkshire.
Gary Verity, the Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, was in France today to see off Chris Froome on Stage 5 of le Tour.
The cyclist sensationally crashed out but by then Mr Verity was at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate where Duncan caught up with him:
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Another chance to see our Tour de France special
Another chance to see our Tour de France special programme live from Kettlewell in North Yorkshire
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When Le Tour came to Yorkshire
A special programme about how the world's biggest bike race came to begin in Yorkshire
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Images that made Yorkshire's Tour truly unforgettable
We have pulled together some of our favourite pictures and tweets from across the weekend of Le Grand Départ. Did your shots make it in?