WILL RAIN AFFECT SPECTATOR ATTENDANCES IN BRIGG AREA FOR TODAY'S MAJOR CYCLE RACE?

Brigg folk woke up to leaden skies and rain today - the last thing we wanted with the OVO Energy Tour of Britain cycle race coming to town  this afternoon.
Further rain is forecast  later. So fingers crossed for a brief lull so spectators will turn out in force to watch the riders speed by.
Advisory times along the A18 in Brigg are: Bridge Street 1.52pm, Barnard Avenue 1.53pm, Wrawby Road 1.54pm.
These are estimates, with people advised to be at their chosen vantage point half-an-hour before those times. So it could prove a wet wait, but hopefully not.
We counted 50 red and brown waste bins put out at the kerbside on half-a-dozen Brigg streets early this morning, despite collections being suspended today because of the race.
That represents well below 10 per cent of the households we passed.
So all the pre-publicity by the North Lincolnshire Council, advising people about the altered collection dates seems to have paid off.
Or maybe you think that 50 bins is a sizeable number of householders who are expecting theirs to be emptied as normal today.

 

PICTURED BEFORE 8am TODAY: A green bike (above) alongside the route of the race near the Monument roundabout in Brigg, the pink and black arrow indicating that the riders will be making a left turn onto Wrawby Road; below - two of the bins put out at the kerbside today but the crews will not be calling to collect them.