Having lobbied Welcome to Yorkshire to bring the Tour De Yorkshire 2017 to Pocklington I am delighted to announce that the Tour De Yorkshire will be passing through Pocklington.

I am excited by today’s announcement that the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire will start in Bridlington on Friday, 28 April and will take in a number of East Yorkshire settlements, including Driffield and Pocklington, on its way to the stage one finish in Scarborough.

The peloton will head towards Pocklington for the race’s first intermediate sprint and then on to Garrowby Hill for the first categorised climb.