Tour of Britain brings out the crowds as it passes through Nottinghamshire

Some of the world's top cyclists have travelled far and wide to take part in the fourth phase of Britain's biggest bike race.

It marks an historic moment for Derby Arena as it witnessed the Tour of Britain pass through the streets on Friday for the very first time.

Across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire people have been lining the streets to catch a glimpse of the race.

The fourth stage of the race began at 11am on Friday, September 6, outside Derby Arena. It finished in Newark - 86 miles later.

This includes Hucknall, Ravenshead, Blidworth, Farnsfield, Southwell, Hockerton, Tuxford, Collingham and Newark.

The men's Tour of Britain has been running for the last 20 years.

The race began in Scotland earlier this week and Derby hosted stage 4 of the race on Friday.

More than 100 of the world's top riders were involved, including Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallists Remco Evenepoel and Tom Pidcock.

The race started at Derby Arena, before heading through Elvaston, Borrowash, West Hallam and Heanor.

It then crossed into Nottinghamshire at Eastwood continuing through Hucknall, Ravenshead, Blidworth, Southwell and Tuxford, before crossing the River Trent to race south to the finish in Newark-on-Trent.

Paul Magnier stormed to a second stage win at the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men as the riders tackled 138 kilometres across the East Midlands from Derby to Newark-on-Trent.

The narrow streets of Newark-on-Trent lent themselves to a tense finish as the leadout trains spread across the road

The Brit’s efforts proved fruitless however as Magnier looked untouchable as he powered to convincingly seal his second stage win of the race, with Vernon following him home, narrowly beating Erlend Blikra (Uno-X Mobility).

Speaking after the stage, Magnier said: “It's been very nice - we put in a strong team performance today. I want to thank Martin Svrček in the headwind all day and then all my other teammates worked to make it into a bunch race and keep me in the front which helped me to save my legs for the last few hundred metres. I did a really nice sprint so I can thank my team. I'm really happy to take the victory today.

“Tomorrow (Saturday) I hope it will again be a bunch sprint and we will try and go again for the victory. I'm really proud to be a part of a team like this - they did an amazing job, they're super strong and they gave me wings. It's nice to see a lot of people here - it gives us motivation.”

The penultimate stage of the Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain Men is in West Northamptonshire today (Saturday), starting from the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus at 11am, and finishing on Derngate in Northampton town centre after 149.6 kilometres of racing.