Yorkshire Festival: Shining spotlight on arts

This year's Yorkshire Festival is officially launched today with organisers hoping it will be a cultural showcase for Leeds' bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2023.

The three-week long programme of music, arts and theatre events is a legacy of the festival which first ran in the run up to the Tour de France’s Grand Depart in 2014.

Now staged every two years, the highlight of this year’s festival in Leeds will see a giant glitterball suspended above the Duke Studios on July, the focus of a 24 hour party.