My show coming to you live from Colorado City Center as the writers themselves prepare for the start of the 2nd stage 11 o'clock this morning if you want to challenge you view and you'll want to come along and say hello. Ma'am I am online and don't be a part of the county for 14. Years b.b.c. Radio. Monday morning September 5th you would b.b.c. Radio Cumbria the time now not to talk Heather Wainwright on the Tour of Britain cycling events backing cameras today more than 120 top cyclists will be tackling a 117 mile route from Khalid to Kendal taking in Penrith Kaka mouth Kazik grass me Ambleside and when DIMIA the race will finish should be Spanx near Hillary Clinton's beach house b. And b. She told b.b.c. Radio Cumbria people in the area particularly grateful to the race because they think it's prompted some essential road repair work focus on a few yet as the road. Greenside has been particularly bad after the floods you know I mean all that we want flooded on greenside the road to damage by the flood but now they've all been repackaged while the race starts in Colorado City Center at 11 o'clock this morning the prime minister's cussed out on whether a points based immigration system would work in Britain its introduction was a promise of many bricks that campaigners but to reason May says there's no single silver bullet for dealing with migration and farmers lorry drivers and traders are starting to blockade the main route into Kalai as they call for the migrant camp known as the jungle to be closed around 9000 people are living there in squalor hundreds of people including the mayor of Cali a taking part in a demonstration to show their support for the camp's closure. Meanwhile the vote to leave the European Union's cost a Cumbrian company tens of thousands of pounds planet not thing Kaka mouth makes clothes and protective equipment to notify clefts its operational director Aaron travel says the drop in the value of the pound against the dollar has caused problems he says the cost of buying raw materials from Aisha's become more expensive because the company pays in dollars and he says because the e.u. Market represents 50 percent of the company's total turnover the uncertainty surrounding the future isn't helpful has already been signs to last that there is a bit of a shrinkage in the market and you know it's it's kind of how big is your is the pond the fish in in you know and potentially just got a little bit smaller so you can have to pedal a bit harder so for Aussies is total life or death the General Medical Council of ones that pave patients will suffer if junior doctors in England go ahead with a series of 51 day strikes next week it says the scale of the action planned at such short notice cannot be justified a couple from Cumbria have been describing how their diving trip in the Rishis went horribly wrong Geoff and Julie Bahn were underwater for half an hour before they surface to find the boat had disappeared they were left in shark infested waters the 7 hours before being rescued Jeff Byrne who is now back home explained how difficult it was to stay positive Just on from command I was getting further and further West Nile and the island became sort of a dust in the distance and the weather got really really really rough and he says they could only watch as rescue teams fail to spot them then we saw a helicopter came off of probably about 4500 metres above us and we're all blowing whistles waving frantically waving actually billionaire. But he just flew straight past a start circle maybe 510 miles ahead of us and there was a Coast Guard cross flying over the tail so we're in the wrong direction out of a completely on the wrong side of the island and an archaeological dig to find out more about man's impact on the Lake District is taking place near Hawke's head special equipment being used to measure the magnetic signal of the. Landen the site will then be excavated the senior archaeologist Jamie cautioning told b.b.c. Radio Cumbria what they hope to discover this is an extremely important sensor for iron making during the 17th and ultimately 18th century so we're looking for burning we look at the hands we're looking ion all of these things and we picked up by them and some of them but also using conventional techniques and then ultimately what we're going to be doing is actually putting a trial in the ground and actually actually can sign on to the sports headlines now here's James Phillips. And German sprinter Andre Greipel wears the leader's jersey going into today's Cumbrian stage of the Tour of Britain you can stay right up to date with the 2nd stage today here throughout the day on b.b.c. Radio Cumbria including the start at around 11 on the Kevin Fania show which is Live throughout the morning here in the city center in Carlisle elsewhere Workington town have been relegated from rugby league championship a 62 now defeat at Sheffield Eagles saved their fate yesterday I've been along as late goal and Sam added us to win in his 1st game as England manager maybe Slovakia won their last night manager Kiko will be looking at 2 potential free transfer signings when Col United take on Queen of the south in a friendly this afternoon and Kendall lost their 1st match following promotion back in 0 bunions national 3 north by 20 points to 15 against Hull over the weekend fun erasing Today's a bright in Perth and Windsor and the weather for Korea today a cloudy day with drizzle and highs of 20 Celsius b.b.c. Radio Cumbria news. B.b.c. Bortz that album back in 1980 I think you'll find it was hidden somewhere in your vinyl record collection showing my age not for the 1st time I considered to be her greatest international hit of course by Barry and Robin game of the Bee Gees who received an even Avello reward for their work in doing so from the album guilty Barbara Streisand and woman and love very good morning to you good to have you that fun in the same I want to studio by stay small and know. The Tour of Britain making a welcome return to the county again they small and sing credible to think 12 months ago we were in Kaka mouth my how the time fly stage 2000 of the 2016 top of Britain starting here in call the city center at 11 o'clock this morning reason enough for you thought for the team to get out of the studio bring the show to you live from the city center come up between now and 12 o'clock you want to meet up with members of the same we'd love to meet up with you press the flesh so to speak call our city center that's where you find us at the right as including the likes of said Bradley Wiggins a Mark Cavendish heading out from the starting line it's 11 o'clock this morning be . B.c. Radio covers poll bright white he's got the nitty gritty stuff to do a little later this morning polls going to be there at the starting line for us where the full commentary is the guys head out of the city for that reason just say here and now we may just be running a few minutes late with your 11 o'clock news but I'm sure you'll understand why that is the case the starting line is English straight up around the crescent down then towards the civic center before heading out to Castle white doubling back on Castle way before heading south east out of the city heading out east of the city or the route taking the ride is down through to Penrith via the Eden Valley before turning west and tackling the hills of the Lake District into the likes of win lots of pass soon of them the maybe the sternest of these tests it's likely to come in Ambleside So the experts tell me the climb obviously of the notorious route known these days as the struggle with its 3779 me to climb then into Wyndham near before finishing that candle we think it around about 3315 this afternoon oh by the way the Reuters As we mentioned to check in chatting to Michael little earlier the ride is themselves racking up 188 kilometers 117 miles of cycling I would imagine ice baths or possibly a good idea can the end of a race like today's planting the way of gas to speak to between now and 12 o'clock Joining us 1st place having brought with us here on b.b.c. Radio Cumbria Tour of Britain chief executive Hugh Roberts Hugh good morning I want to go and how you can believe that it's 12 months since you and I last had a chat saying Coke amounts last year I mean where's the was no chocolates overlook or even waiting expectantly all this time but they were back again and we're delighted to be because we all know what you've been going through this winter and I think if I can raise one of the probably the only in fact vent that can ever. Ties the fact to the rest of the world in the u.k. Of course that cock of mouth and can come Baron as a Jew in general or over the business and you're putting those terrible moments or months ago behind you know which is which is fantastic just clarify something for me if you've gone some way in doing that that there are a lot of whispers going around the only reason that the tour is back in Cumbria is because of what we went through 7 months ago I mean that in itself is great if not be the case but it's not the truth no no. We work on what would come back and a council called our council and we have somebody who represents our interest up in the Northwest constantly so we're with planning to do these events several months maybe even several years ahead certainly a lot longer ago than. 7 or 8 months ago as it so happens the fact that we were due to be coming here meant that we could probably craft and design the routes in such a way that we could emphasize the repairs that are being made to the roads in the bridges etc which we are quite a number of flexible and so doing but we were always coming to Cumbria so wonderful it's good to have you guys back as a sack cannot believe it's 12 months down the line not come out this morning for the start of stage 2 this year around 2016 here in Colorado City Center just told me what is going to be happening here this morning is already a crackle in the ad the atmosphere already it's quite exciting isn't it it is the guys putting in the infrastructure were out here at about 5 o'clock this morning trying to be as quiet as possible the moving bear isn't gantries and podiums around that time the morning quietly is not so easy but I think they managed to do it without disturbing to many people but there is an air of expectation that starting to build here I can already see many many people that are arriving in the street here in the square ready for a goal which I think happening at about $230.00 and a big finish about an hour later in candle where the last climb about 3 quarters of a kilometer is really extreme you know he says 11 degrees which is a sound very much to you and I Kevin but when you're on a bike believe me that's quite quite a climb and be doing it having just done a. $179.00 K.'s already. Is going to really be a bit of a shock to them but we're expecting big crowds in Kendal and we love coming to Cumbria and showing the rest of the u.k. In the world what wonderful scenery we've got and what great cycling terrain you have and for people to come here on the holidays and spend money with your cafes and pubs and restaurants and hotels is very important to us it is a beautiful backdrop for this year's Tour of Britain it is a tough threw you don't expect nothing less from Cumbrian the terrain we've got here I don't hear it with having some big climbs and being very very lumpy as I would say in the game but that's fine with us today could be a deciding day in the race and actually could define the next 6 days subject of what happens and whether the riders are up for. Putting on a big show going up the struggle so it will wait and see the moment the weather looks pretty good it's going to on our side so hopefully that doesn't affect things too much either but we're expecting big crowds and the great race today I do have to pay credit to the backstage staff so to speak it's incredible how we've witness we've been here since around about well coached white this morning and I know these guys were here at the crack of dawn this morning but already you've transformed the entire city center excited to see incredible to watch poetry in motion. Poetry Yeah you know so you call it poetry in motion maybe a limerick in motion joking apart this takes a lot of planning and a lot of thought goes into how it's all comes together we move about 4 or 500 people who work on the race 1500 volunteers several 100 maybe even thousands of tons of equipment 70 vehicles we book out 100 hotels along the route so there's an inordinate amount of planning and so for that goes into and then of the top of that we've got helicopters that are filming the race and we've got production teams that are creating programs are going out live all over the u.k. And across the world as well so it's an enormous undertaking so it does take planning and perhaps to the layman if you go oh my god how did you start to do this but like everything in life you have to break it down into its component parts and you start with the start and then you put the root together and then you have a finish and there's a different team that does the starts in the finishes in case you're wondering so they sort of leapfrog each other around around the country and they've all been doing it for a long time now and whilst sometimes that policy can breed a little bit of complacency we're not careful we're constantly on top of it and improving our standards and our methods and so forth because we have to keep pace with the change and and also we have a lot of security and safety issues that we have to contend with all the time ones which are constantly being tightened in the wake of you know all sorts of dreadful incidents that are going on around the world so a well oiled machine what we're seeing taking place behind the scenes before we even get so much as a glimpse of the riders themselves later this morning let's just talk very very briefly about the Tour of Britain how it is change over the years if you go back 131415 years this is one that is really really snowballed you've got the world's always looking at on this you know we have we started off in 2004 had been a tour of Britain or anything like it for many years prior to that so we got started and it was a bit of a leap of faith but luckily in those days we had the foresight to work right from the beginning with the stakeholders in. People to whom the race is important by that I mean the councils the people who run the events in these cities and towns and villages that go to the counties now who have more ownership in the vote of comers of the event so we've now got very deep seated foundations with all these very important people many of whom are unsung sort of heroes who are equally getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to make sure that we don't do something that we're not supposed to be doing which by and large we don't usually we have to sort of move a barrier here and there because some has dug up a road or so to suddenly put in a skip overnight or something but by and large it's all it's all done in a very orderly sort of fashion. So the race has grown and it snowballed and it wouldn't happen without the help of all those those people but because then we had the help of the riders themselves we had the weekend is the Cavendish and the friends of this world and a lot more now likely the coming on behind them who have been winning medals in limpid games winning to the France etc So there's been an extraordinary upswell an interest in cycling that's fueled by the media such as yourselves you probably 10 years ago wouldn't be really paying an awful lot attention to this but we now have I think upwards of $500.00 media accreditation zx which is a sort of benchmark for gauging how much more interest there is in the race where in 2004 we might have got the Telegraph the times we now get the mirror with all due respect to them in the sun who wouldn't ordinarily follow cycling they're more into soccer and so on and motor racing but anyway it has grown out of all proportion and we're lucky to be riding a wave that as meant that all our events are showing a lot more signs of it growing even more in the future too I want to see economics of an event the likes of the chore Britain you don't pay to watch cycling No I mean we have to remind people and sometimes remind ourselves that we're bringing all these amazing riders Olympic champions 8 medals from Rio for example are taking part in this race and nobody pays a penny to watch well obviously the money to put these events on has to come from somewhere but what we do is. We were trying to illustrate to the stakeholders those being the counties the regions the cetera that in bringing race to their part the world we're putting on a free show to encourage kids and people to ride bikes in general which is good for the general health of the region that we're bringing tourism in the rest of the year as well because this is a great advertisement for in this case obviously the Lake District and cumber as a whole and then finally goes the other thing is that we have to find a way of attracting sponsors brands and so forth but not any old brand but ones keeping with what we're trying to do to be connected and sustainable and that's not easy sometimes to be as choosy as that you know with all due respect we could go for you know an overseas bank from the far east as. People go on earth are they doing here because they're not relevant but we've got people like Skoda who've got showrooms all over the place and making cars that are fit for people who've got bikes we've got yodel who are our transportation partners who provide an unbelievable amount of help in terms of providing vehicles bands optics and social cutting all this equipment around I mean a chain reaction is a very large online cycling retailer who are incredible because they gauge all their. Customers and hopeful to come out and watch. And they finally we have British Cycling who are our partners in this as well who've got no 125000 members who in most cases provide us with volunteers which is really important because otherwise the costs would just escalate to the point where it would be an economic and unsustainable to do it I just think it's wonderful how the general public have taken this sport and really truly made it its own just in closing here here over the course of the weekend out east of Carlisle dropping down from from Brampton through Castle Carrick come Rue and all the way down the gin Valley through chit to Penrith and it's these wonderful villages that are now decked out and ready to greet the riders as they come through and that for me and I'm sure you'll agree. It's a real real magic of an event like. You have to write that and all the schoolchildren as well so fortunately for us when I was it's a Monday now and the kids are going back to school but for us is really heartening to not only see the effort that a lot of the shopkeepers in the cafes in the pubs and restaurants that are of put into the decking the front windows with cycling paraphernalia So that's really important and it is traits how much cycling is now involved in the psyche of all sorts of different walks of life but I think getting the kids out as well and trying to inspire them to be the next week in this Cavendish is hallways of this this well there are indeed Laura trots that is absolutely vital for us and if we can give a just a few of them into wanting to start cycling as a sport rather than merely just using it as a motor Transvaal that on itself is very important then that's something that we will look back home with pride Q I know you are very very busy Fowler thank you for taking time out and joining us here on b.b.c. 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