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Tour de France Women come to Huddersfield in 2027
The prestigious event boosted a massive interest in cycling in Yorkshire when the men's race Grand Départ was held in Yorkshire in 2014.
The Tour returns with the first two days of the women's race partly in Yorkshire next year while the men's Scotland to Wales Grand Départ also reaches into historic Yorkshire.
The first day for the Tour de France Femmes will start in Leeds on Friday July 30, 2027, to head over the Pennines to Manchester.
The following day the race will head back along a winding and hilly route through the Derbyshire part of the Peak District from Manchester to end in Sheffield.
The third day of the women's race will be in London before the cyclists head off to France.
Before the women's races, the men's Grand Départ will also have been held be in Britain, briefly dipping into historic Yorkshire as it heads through the Trough of Bowland on its second day on Saturday July 3. Day 1 of the men's race heads from Scotland to England with a stage from Edinburgh to Carlisle. The short stretch of historic Yorkshire is on the Keswick to Liverpool stage on Day 2. The third day is in Wales with a stage from Welshpool to Cardiff.
League One
Huddersfield Town will stay in League One next season
The Terriers cannot now reach the promotion play-offs, which was their only remaining hope of promotion.
Three consecutive drawn games have put Town in a position from which they are unable to recover, all those games with the disappointment of being potential wins until opponents' equalisers late into added time.
A late-equaliser by Bolton leading to a 3-3 draw last Saturday had left Town with only the slimmest of chances of a play-off place if they won their last two games, but not if Stevenage were to win any of their remaining three.
Bolton had taken an early lead with a goal after 14 minutes and were still ahead at half-time. But in the space of 14 minutes in the second half, Town had turned around the score to 1-3 with first a David Kasumu goal, a Marcus Harness penalty a few minutes later, then a second from Kasumu. However, Town could not rest on their laurels as Bolton struck back in the 77th minute then hit in the fateful goal in the final minute of added time leaving the Terriers with only one point from the game and little hope of reaching the play-offs.
Despite the disappointment, Huddersfield fans have had an entertaining season of plenty of goals — 174 so far, both for and against, in the league and in cup competitions.
In League One next season, Town will again be meeting Yorkshire rivals Barnsley and Doncaster, but not Rotherham who are relegated. Bradford City are still in a strong position for the League One promotion play-offs which will select one from four teams to join already-promoted Lincoln City, who confirmed themselves as league champions in their Tuesday night match at Doncaster, and second-place Cardiff City.
Town's penultimate game and last home match of the season is next Saturday (April 25, 3pm) against Mansfield Town.
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No trains from Huddersfield again this weekend
The station will have only rail replacement bus services this weekend. A limited diversion timetable of TransPennine Express trains will be operated by the longer Calder Valley line with a stop at Brighouse, which this weekend will have replacement buses directly to Huddersfield.
TransPennine Express trains via Brighouse will also be making other additional stops at Calder Valley stations as some usual timetables for Northern trains are disrupted, including the Saturday service between Wigan and Leeds.
Trains from Manchester Piccadilly will operate to Marsden with a replacement bus to Slaithwaite and Huddersfield. There are also replacement bus services from Manchester Piccadilly direct and from Stalybridge with stops to Huddersfield.
Buses from Huddersfield will run via Deighton and Mirfield to Wakefield Kirkgate where trains to York via Castleford will resume.
Northern trains from Sheffield towards Huddersfield will terminate at Lockwood with a replacement bus into Huddersfield.
TransPennine Express services will run from Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Manchester Victoria to Stalybridge only on Saturday, but between Manchester Airport and after Manchester Victoria via the Calder Valley diversion route, Brighouse and Dewsbury towards the usual destination of Redcar on Sunday.
Work will be continuing until early next year on major internal alterations to the Grade I listed Huddersfield station which will increase the number of through platforms to four when complete. Work is also taking place on renewing the main internal station roof, extending the subway, installing a new footbridge and completing bridge renewal and alterations on to Huddersfield Viaduct. Part of the work during the May closure will involve relaying track near Bradley Junction.
Please visit operators websites for more information and timetables.
Check details of your journey at the National Rail website.
National Rail For more information about work on this line see the TransPennine Route Upgrade website.
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Further areas cordoned off for Piazza scheme
The 1930s building is to be extended at its rear as part of work to turn it into a museum. The green space of the Piazza has also been dug over until a new Town Park is eventually created.
The new library building is nearing completion and is due to be opened in late summer this year.
A food hall at the former Queensgate Market, shown to the public at an open day last September, is now set to be delayed in its opening until the Spring of next year after the additional expense of fitting it out.
Kirklees Council has planned the redevelopment of the area around the former Market Hall which has seen the demolition of part of the Market building to allow a new public square to be created in front of the old library building and beside the Town Hall.
The listed part of the Market building with its unique airy roof design and sculptured panels along Queensgate is being retained as part of the new food hall, social dining area and part of the new library.
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