03/07/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Dan Roan, BBC News, Rio. Good evening.

Here's our correspondent, Matt Slater.

Everybody loves a winner whhch is exactly what Chris would like to

remain in Yorkshire. Even whthout a few of the shows biggest st`rs.

There are new songs to be stng and bells to be wrong. The cast list has

plenty of style quality. Mark Cavendish! I am so confident it will

be overshadowed in Yorkshird this weekend. The opening ceremony

promised something a bit different, a stage to prove Yorkshire has got

talent and can do things together, better and louder. The Tour de

France was started in 2003. It is the first time ever there are so

many people attending the tdam presentation ceremony. As I speak,

bell`ringers are ringing hundreds of bells in celebration at this very

moment. What do you think of the show? Amazing. The teams coling on

stage, brilliant. Really good, thoroughly enjoyed it. Was ht value

for money? Fantastic. The bhggest team presentation am the gr`ndest

Grand Depart and this could be the defining moment in Yorkshird was

macro history. It is time now to deliver.

So with the global spotlight now on Yorkshire,

how can our businesses take advantage?

Our business correspondent, Danni Hewson, reports from

the Grand Depart International Business Festival in Sheffidld.

If there is one thing Yorkshire folk are good at,

As the world arrives on our doorstep,

its business leaders, buyers and trade journalist are behng given

There are a lot of companies to meet around sports

and around the different fidlds of sport industries.

I think it is a good opporttnity to meet people and do busindss.

This is the first time a business event has been created to coincide

with the Grand Depart and the expectation is a number of deals

There is going to be a rese`rch deal being signed for York university

Yes it is stage one and two for the Tour de France

but it is stage one and two of a long`term race

And events are targeted so potential buyers in the health

care sector spent the afternoon touring this Rotherham factory.

Here they have created an artificial bone coating for their impl`nts

so things like hip replacemdnts actually grow into the body.

It's a fantastic platform to tell the world about

the great technologies and the great clinical treatments

that are produced and innov`ted here in Yorkshire.

If the joints don't grab thdir fancy, how about the suits?

A celebration of our textile manufacturers whose

top notch and rather expenshve cloth could certainly appeal to expanding

Wealthy people are always interested in spending their money in creative

ways and so, you know, in that sense China is a good market for highly

sophisticated luxury goods but it's also a matter

of exposing people to them `nd that's what events like this do

No`one with an interest in the economy under estimates

You want to harness all the enthusiasm and energy and ptblic

support for the Tour de France and turn it into something

Some of those heading to Yorkshire today were still asking how far

it was from London? Now thex have their answer, the next question is

Well, nearly 1,000 roads will be closed for the Tour at various times

From tomorrow morning your BBC local radio station has extra travel

bulletins and key public information to help you get around, whether

And there's also a Tour de France in Yorkshire page on the BBC

website with information, news and features about the Tour.

In other news, the owner of two pitbull dogs which

mauled to death his pregnant partner in Leeds has been spared jahl.

The judge said Lee Horner had expressed deep remorse

for the horrific attack, which cost the life of Emma Bennett

But he was told he'd failed to take reasonable steps to establish

He was sentenced to 280 hours unpaid community work.

Supermarket chain Asda is to cut 1,360 jobs as part of an ovdrhaul

The move comes two months after the Leeds based chain, which

has nearly 600 stores in thd UK warned that around 4,000 roles were

at risk because of a need to reduce the number of back office jobs.

West Yorkshire's Police Comlissioner Mark Burns`Williamson has sdcured

a ?200,000 grant from The Mhnistry for Justice to create a network to

Police will join the Hope for Justice charity and other groups

aimed at rescuing and protecting victims of what Mr Burns`Williamson

calls "the significant emerging threat" of trafficking.

The Commissioner wants to hdad a national working group to help

Yet another date and venue have been announced for Sheffield boxdr

Kell Brook to fight for the world title.

He will now take on the defdnding champion, Shaun Porter,

It's the third date so far given for the IBF welterweight title showdown.

It is looking a bit mixed and tomorrow rather cloudy. There is the

weather front and by midday Saturday it should be clear so Saturday looks

like a wet start but things will slowly improved. Right now, a lot of

cloud and a bit of patchy r`in later on. Very mild indeed. The lhst

temperatures, 13 or 14 degrdes `` lowest. Friday, skies should

brighten. It is late afternoon when we will see the rain coming into the

Pennines and by the end of tomorrow evening the rain will be towards the

coast. Wet and windy tomorrow evening. Saturday, some overnight

rain to clear and then it is brighter in the afternoon whth sunny

spells and one of two showers. That is it

outlook for the weekend is quite different.

For those of you who haven't already heard, we've recorded our highest

temperature so far this year, and that was in Writtle in Essex. It

looks highly likely as well that we could see temperatures of a similar

value for tomorrow. Anywhere through central London to the east could see

highs of 27 to 29 degrees. But that is only one part of the story. The

second part of the story is rain moving in as we speak across the far

north and west. Some of that rain will turn heavy through the night

across Northern Ireland and into western Scotland. I had a bit, cloud

with pieces of rain but it will be a pretty mild night to