The Grand Départ 2014
Our piece in The Telegraph & Argus, 29 April 2013 (reported by Chris Young) Worth Valley residents fear they will not make most of Tour de France without better internet The district’s rural towns and villages will not be able to make the most of next summer’s Tour De France unless the local internet connection is improved, according to a campaign group. FibreValley, led by Oxenhope resident Ken Eastwood, has been calling for better wireless internet in Haworth, Oxenhope and the surrounding area. Although the situation has improved since they started, they feel patchy connections could let the area down when the world’s media descends on the area for the race’s Grand Depart in Yorkshire on July 6, 2014. Mr Eastwood believes many tourists may be put off visiting the more rural parts of the route if hotels and B&Bs don’t have reliable internet connection, and those that do come may not be too