Yorkshire sheep in Tour de France makeover
This article tells us: with defending champion Chris Froome abandoning the Tour de France, this article recounts how Farmer Keith Chapman painted his flock in different colours using dye he would normally use at tupping time. The sheep, based at Daleside Nurseries, near Harrogate, have created a mini-media frenzy and pictures have been shared hundreds of times on social media sites. Mr Chapman has also grown more than 2,500 French marigolds in the shape of a giant yellow jersey. Both the sheep and the flowers, which are situated along the route, created lots of attention when the Tour made its way through Yorkshire for the first time over the weekend. Similarly, Writtle College in Chelmsford, Essex, celebrated the tour by creating a giant landscape of more than 300 bales of haylage in a field on its 220ha estate. To celebrate the Grand Departure of the Tour Defra launched a social media campaign highlighting Protected Food Names along the route (more information can be found here