Tour de France provides boost for Yorkshire businesses

Name: Tour de France provides boost for Yorkshire businesses
Uploaded: 2014-07-06T06:00:23.000Z
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Description: The second stage of the Tour de France begins later with almost 200 cyclists battling it out over a 201km (124-mile) route from York to Sheffield.

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The second stage of the Tour de France begins later with almost 200 cyclists battling it out over a 201km (124-mile) route from York to Sheffield.

More than a million people lined the route of stage one of the Tour on Saturday between Leeds and Harrogate.

The event has led to a welcome boost for the area's economy.

Olivia Richwald reports.

England

6 July 2014