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Tour de France Women come to Huddersfield in 2027

The Tour de France headed towards Holme Moss in West Yorkshire in 2014The Tour de France Grand Départ returns to Yorkshire in 2027 and stage one of the Women's competition will come through Huddersfield on its Day 1.

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 route will head into Huddersfield via Wakefield Road and out towards Meltham via Chapel HillThe route will cross Kirklees on the 85.7km stage. It will pass through Birkenshaw, Birstall, Gomersal, Heckmondwike and Mirfield on its route into Huddersfield via the mountain stage "Côte de Kirkheaton" and Moldgreen. The route continues out of town via Netherton, South Crosland and Meltham with another mountain stage, the "Côte de Meltham", towards Wessenden Head before crossing the moor towards Greenfield, Uppermill and Delph on its way to a finish in Manchester city centre.

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 1 - Mansfield Town 4

Town played their last League One home game of the season on SaturdayHuddersfield Town's fate of another season in League One had already been sealed after a Tuesday night match in which Stevenage beat Barnsley 1-0 at home.

It meant the Terriers could not reach the promotion play-offs, which was their only remaining hope of promotion.

Fans had a further disappointment when their last home game of the season on Saturday ended in a 1-4 defeat by Mansfield Town.

In League One next season, Town will again be meeting Yorkshire rivals Barnsley and Doncaster, but not Rotherham who are relegated. Bradford City have a one-in-four chance of promotion through the play-offs. Lincoln City, confirmed themselves as league champions last Tuesday night and in second-place are Cardiff City.

Town's last match of the season is next Saturday (May 2, 3pm) at Wimbledon.

Find out more at the Huddersfield Town official website.

Further areas cordoned off for Piazza scheme

The new library is nearly complete while the green space of the piazza has now been ripped up as a further area around the old library is cordoned off for the buildersMore areas of Huddersfield town centre have been fenced off as work on alterations to the Piazza extend to the back of the town's former library building.

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.

Inside the progressing work on the new food hall at September's Heritage Open Day eventIn March, senior council officers asked for an extra £3m to be taken from later phases of the regeneration scheme "to assist with ongoing commercial negotiations" on top of £1m already approved. The council is looking to lease the food hall to an operator, but fit-out costs are now set to be a council expense.

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.

A model of the proposed Cultural Heart plansEventually a town park is planned to stretch from the public square to the corner of King Street and Queen Street.