{"id":116526,"date":"2025-09-05T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116526\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:44:07","slug":"tour-of-britain-speeds-through-woburn-deer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116526\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain speeds through Woburn deer park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Riders taking part in the Tour of Britain have raced through picturesque villages and a large deer park during the third leg of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">On Thursday, the race started in Milton Keynes and finished in Ampthill, Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Along the way, cyclists sped through villages such as Woburn, Toddington and Barton-le-Clay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Adam Zerny, leader of Central Bedfordshire Council, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been fantastic to welcome the Tour of Britain to Central Bedfordshire; a great opportunity to showcase our towns, villages, parks and beautiful countryside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The council said it hoped the event had inspired children and adults to discover cycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Pupils from Arnold Academy cheered as the peloton shot pass their school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Headteacher Pete Roberts said: &#8220;What a lovely experience for our pupils and staff, who loved the opportunity to make a tunnel of noise for the riders!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riders taking part in the Tour of Britain have raced through picturesque villages and a large deer park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-116526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}