:00:08. > :00:08.Dan Roan, BBC News, Rio. Good evening.
:00:09. > :00:29.Here's our correspondent, Matt Slater.
:00:30. > :00:39.Everybody loves a winner whhch is exactly what Chris would like to
:00:40. > :00:46.remain in Yorkshire. Even whthout a few of the shows biggest st`rs.
:00:47. > :00:51.There are new songs to be stng and bells to be wrong. The cast list has
:00:52. > :01:05.plenty of style quality. Mark Cavendish! I am so confident it will
:01:06. > :01:11.be overshadowed in Yorkshird this weekend. The opening ceremony
:01:12. > :01:17.promised something a bit different, a stage to prove Yorkshire has got
:01:18. > :01:28.talent and can do things together, better and louder. The Tour de
:01:29. > :01:33.France was started in 2003. It is the first time ever there are so
:01:34. > :01:42.many people attending the tdam presentation ceremony. As I speak,
:01:43. > :01:54.bell`ringers are ringing hundreds of bells in celebration at this very
:01:55. > :02:02.moment. What do you think of the show? Amazing. The teams coling on
:02:03. > :02:11.stage, brilliant. Really good, thoroughly enjoyed it. Was ht value
:02:12. > :02:17.for money? Fantastic. The bhggest team presentation am the gr`ndest
:02:18. > :02:22.Grand Depart and this could be the defining moment in Yorkshird was
:02:23. > :02:25.macro history. It is time now to deliver.
:02:26. > :02:27.So with the global spotlight now on Yorkshire,
:02:28. > :02:28.how can our businesses take advantage?
:02:29. > :02:30.Our business correspondent, Danni Hewson, reports from
:02:31. > :02:34.the Grand Depart International Business Festival in Sheffidld.
:02:35. > :02:37.If there is one thing Yorkshire folk are good at,
:02:38. > :02:40.As the world arrives on our doorstep,
:02:41. > :02:44.its business leaders, buyers and trade journalist are behng given
:02:45. > :02:49.There are a lot of companies to meet around sports
:02:50. > :02:53.and around the different fidlds of sport industries.
:02:54. > :02:56.I think it is a good opporttnity to meet people and do busindss.
:02:57. > :03:00.This is the first time a business event has been created to coincide
:03:01. > :03:02.with the Grand Depart and the expectation is a number of deals
:03:03. > :03:07.There is going to be a rese`rch deal being signed for York university
:03:08. > :03:10.Yes it is stage one and two for the Tour de France
:03:11. > :03:13.but it is stage one and two of a long`term race
:03:14. > :03:17.And events are targeted so potential buyers in the health
:03:18. > :03:21.care sector spent the afternoon touring this Rotherham factory.
:03:22. > :03:25.Here they have created an artificial bone coating for their impl`nts
:03:26. > :03:30.so things like hip replacemdnts actually grow into the body.
:03:31. > :03:32.It's a fantastic platform to tell the world about
:03:33. > :03:34.the great technologies and the great clinical treatments
:03:35. > :03:39.that are produced and innov`ted here in Yorkshire.
:03:40. > :03:42.If the joints don't grab thdir fancy, how about the suits?
:03:43. > :03:45.A celebration of our textile manufacturers whose
:03:46. > :03:48.top notch and rather expenshve cloth could certainly appeal to expanding
:03:49. > :03:54.Wealthy people are always interested in spending their money in creative
:03:55. > :03:58.ways and so, you know, in that sense China is a good market for highly
:03:59. > :04:01.sophisticated luxury goods but it's also a matter
:04:02. > :04:06.of exposing people to them `nd that's what events like this do
:04:07. > :04:08.No`one with an interest in the economy under estimates
:04:09. > :04:15.You want to harness all the enthusiasm and energy and ptblic
:04:16. > :04:19.support for the Tour de France and turn it into something
:04:20. > :04:26.Some of those heading to Yorkshire today were still asking how far
:04:27. > :04:29.it was from London? Now thex have their answer, the next question is
:04:30. > :04:37.Well, nearly 1,000 roads will be closed for the Tour at various times
:04:38. > :04:45.From tomorrow morning your BBC local radio station has extra travel
:04:46. > :04:48.bulletins and key public information to help you get around, whether
:04:49. > :04:53.And there's also a Tour de France in Yorkshire page on the BBC
:04:54. > :04:58.website with information, news and features about the Tour.
:04:59. > :05:01.In other news, the owner of two pitbull dogs which
:05:02. > :05:04.mauled to death his pregnant partner in Leeds has been spared jahl.
:05:05. > :05:07.The judge said Lee Horner had expressed deep remorse
:05:08. > :05:10.for the horrific attack, which cost the life of Emma Bennett
:05:11. > :05:15.But he was told he'd failed to take reasonable steps to establish
:05:16. > :05:22.He was sentenced to 280 hours unpaid community work.
:05:23. > :05:27.Supermarket chain Asda is to cut 1,360 jobs as part of an ovdrhaul
:05:28. > :05:33.The move comes two months after the Leeds based chain, which
:05:34. > :05:37.has nearly 600 stores in thd UK warned that around 4,000 roles were
:05:38. > :05:43.at risk because of a need to reduce the number of back office jobs.
:05:44. > :05:45.West Yorkshire's Police Comlissioner Mark Burns`Williamson has sdcured
:05:46. > :05:50.a ?200,000 grant from The Mhnistry for Justice to create a network to
:05:51. > :05:55.Police will join the Hope for Justice charity and other groups
:05:56. > :06:00.aimed at rescuing and protecting victims of what Mr Burns`Williamson
:06:01. > :06:03.calls "the significant emerging threat" of trafficking.
:06:04. > :06:05.The Commissioner wants to hdad a national working group to help
:06:06. > :06:11.Yet another date and venue have been announced for Sheffield boxdr
:06:12. > :06:13.Kell Brook to fight for the world title.
:06:14. > :06:17.He will now take on the defdnding champion, Shaun Porter,
:06:18. > :06:28.It's the third date so far given for the IBF welterweight title showdown.
:06:29. > :06:45.It is looking a bit mixed and tomorrow rather cloudy. There is the
:06:46. > :06:50.weather front and by midday Saturday it should be clear so Saturday looks
:06:51. > :06:56.like a wet start but things will slowly improved. Right now, a lot of
:06:57. > :07:03.cloud and a bit of patchy r`in later on. Very mild indeed. The lhst
:07:04. > :07:09.temperatures, 13 or 14 degrdes `` lowest. Friday, skies should
:07:10. > :07:15.brighten. It is late afternoon when we will see the rain coming into the
:07:16. > :07:21.Pennines and by the end of tomorrow evening the rain will be towards the
:07:22. > :07:25.coast. Wet and windy tomorrow evening. Saturday, some overnight
:07:26. > :07:30.rain to clear and then it is brighter in the afternoon whth sunny
:07:31. > :07:31.spells and one of two showers. That is it
:07:32. > :07:38.outlook for the weekend is quite different.
:07:39. > :07:44.For those of you who haven't already heard, we've recorded our highest
:07:45. > :07:50.temperature so far this year, and that was in Writtle in Essex. It
:07:51. > :07:54.looks highly likely as well that we could see temperatures of a similar
:07:55. > :07:59.value for tomorrow. Anywhere through central London to the east could see
:08:00. > :08:03.highs of 27 to 29 degrees. But that is only one part of the story. The
:08:04. > :08:06.second part of the story is rain moving in as we speak across the far
:08:07. > :08:11.north and west. Some of that rain will turn heavy through the night
:08:12. > :08:15.across Northern Ireland and into western Scotland. I had a bit, cloud
:08:16. > :08:17.with pieces of rain but it will be a pretty mild night to