Tour de Yorkshire gets funding boost from UK government

Yorkshire's burgeoning status as one of Europe's leading cycling destinations has received another boost with the announcement by the UK government that it is to invest £800,000 to support the Tour de Yorkshire and the construction of new cycling facilities.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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