COUNCILS in Yorkshire have spent almost £6 million pounds preparing the roads for next week’s Tour de France.
Information released through Freedom of Information requests shows the road works bill ahead of the race tops £5.95 million, with £4.2 million of that in North Yorkshire County Council’s area.
In total, around three quarters of the cash has been brought forward from work planned for future years, and in North Yorkshire that figure swells to 90 percent.