Quote: Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza "Smaller towns like Leeds, Huddersfield and York?
In Huddersfield they had a French farm in St George's Square, cycle races Round the town centre and light up emley moor mast in the week before it.'"
Suspect you'll find we're all paying for the Leeds extravaganza out of the 'tourism for Yorkshire' budget, what with it being the big starting ceremony replete with all the [never ending] free publicity on Look North. York - did it go there? - is a city big on tourism, so I'd guess any excuse to maximise that, by setting up an exhibition / attraction, would be just the sort of thing they'd do extremely well.
To be honest, I don't really think these are sticks with which to beat a small - dare I say, without being flamed by Cougar fans - more down at heel town, than the others. A good few of the shops and businesses which 'didn't bother' are actually closed down.
