06/07/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Day two of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, and there have been

It is being dismantled. We want to hold onto this weekend for ` bit

hold onto this weekend for a bit longer. Let's try and look `t

hold onto this weekend for ` bit longer. Let's try and look at some

longer. Let's try and look `t some pictures of the spectacular scenes

as the Raiders came into thhs great as the Raiders came into this great

city. `` Riders. Organisers reckon

around 2.5 million people h`ve turned out over the past two days to

watch the world's biggest annual Outside the main towns and cities,

tens of thousands packed the roadside

alongside some of the most difficult But amid the excitement,

there was disappointment as Yorkshire favourite Mark Cavendish

was forced to pull out of the Tour. But first Clare Frisby reports from

York, where the historic city gave Today, York's historic stredts came

alive with the beauty of I have come from Baylor University

in Texas just to see this. We've come from Devon,

just north of Exeter, and wd're here Travelled on Friday and herd

this morning watching the event. The atmosphere is electric `nd

the schoolchildren are ecstatic. For many here today it is

a once`in`a`lifetime experience I am so excited. I am shivering all

over. I'm so excited. I'm so happy, I can't keep still.

It was amazing, it was really cool. We are having so much fun.

We saw them go past. Riders could be leaving with sore

ears as well as aching legs. Le Tour is never going to have a

more heightened sense of fashion than here. Roadside on the cobbled

main streets. It was a deafening main streets. It was a deafdning

noise when the main bunch came noise when the main bunch came

through. A real effort for those who made it appear to be as close as

they could to the action. What has it been like for you guys?

Absolutely fantastic. Great noise all afternoon.

It's quite a long way up. W`s all afternoon.

It's quite a long way up. Was it It's quite a long way up. W`s it

worth the effort? Absolutely. Doesn't it say just about everything

we knew about the day the data to Kim passed our door.

Well, one of the highlights of today was the spectacular climb

up Holme Moss on the border between West Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

It's more than 1700 feet high, and tens of thousands

Our reporter Phil Bodmer joins us now live from there.

If you look around now, you wouldn't know that if you look around now,

you wouldn't know that a has reopened and apart from the odd

caravan, it is quiet. Brian is editing a way for tonight's late

special programme. It was wdt and special programme. It was wet and

windy and cold and we thought we had chosen the wrong location btt how

chosen the wrong location but how long could we be? They came in their

thousands. It started off as a trickle and then turned into a

torrent of people picking their way up to the summit of Holme Moss. As

the pellets and came through, they cheered and screamed and shouted. I

have never seen anything quite cheered and screamed and shouted. I

have never seen anything quhte like have never seen anything quite like

it. It was absolutely unbelhevable. The first inkling we got that the

pellet was on its way where the helicopters that landed not too far

away on the campsite. You c`n see away on the campsite. You c`n see

them in the distance. They are them in the distance. They `re

packing up and going home. It was packing up and going home. Ht was

one of those events that will live long in the memory. A truly

unforgettable day. Well dond to unforgettable day. Well done to

those athletes who managed to get up to Holme Moss in about six linutes.

to Holme Moss in about six minutes. They were going flat out. I couldn't

imagine how hard they had bden imagine how hard they had been

working but it was a day I will never forget. A bitter

disappointment for Mark Cavendish disappointment for Mark Cavdndish

who had to leave the race. Well, our Tour de France

correspondent Matt Slater h`s Been talking to me about th`t.

Anybody who knows anything about Anybody who knows anything `bout

that would know that to pull out of the race must hurt. When I caught up

with him, has sense of loss and sadness was clear.

The whole way round it was full of people.

Sometimes it's a little bit dangerous, to be fair.

To see so many people out supporting was incredible.

They really motivated me and that's why I was really determined.

I wanted to win for all those people but that's not how it happened.

But it's great to see that luch support for cycling in this country.

Overall, this has been a huge success for Yorkshire, hasn't it?

It is sad for him but let's not lose sight of the real story, Yorkshire.

I've seen lots of tours and have been building this up for six

been building this up for shx months. It surpassed my

expectations. I spoke to a French journalist who said to me, H think

there is a new home for cycling, it there is a new home for cycling, it

is right here. This used to be a minority sport. We thought people

wouldn't come out for a bikd race wouldn't come out for a bike race

but they did. It was fantastic. Matt Slater reflecting on the Tour

de France. The weather has been brilliant in Sheffield and it hasn't

brilliant in Sheffield and ht hasn't rained once but how is looking for

rained once but how is lookhng for the week ahead?

It has been a real mixed bag of weather this weekend

and tomorrow we start the next working week again fairly mhxed

A mixture of sunny spells but also the risk of some showers

Some of them could be on the sharp side and the odd rumble of

And don't forget there's a special edition of Look North

tonight looking back at the Tour De France weekend.

If you have missed anything, I hope you haven't, do watch that. Here in

Sheffield it is time to say goodbye. The pub behind me has had to shut

because Sheffield has drunk its stride tonight. What a weekdnd

because Sheffield has drunk its stride tonight. What a weekend that

has been. When we will never forget. Goodbye.

Imagine if you could talk to the animals.

Zoologist Lucy Cooke is going to show us how.

This is the first example we know of of infrared communication.

This is amazing. So this is a dolphin greeting?

Are you telling me we're really going to speak to a firefly?