What a great stage day it was yesterday on Stage 6 of the Tour of Britain starting out from Royal Victoria Park. As a Council we worked hard with the tour and sponsors to ensure that not only was the race a great sporting success but that also the community side of it and the spectator opportunity was great.

We had a cycle village in the park and touring round the stalls stopped for a chat with the cycle bath campaign group, up on the stage awarded t-shirts and certificates to all the young people from schools from across B&NES who lead the race out and then enjoyed all the teams being introduced to the crowds.

It was a great honour to, with Laura, drop the flag at the start line to get the stage race of to its start.