Daily Mail

How many cyclists does it take to power a lightbulb? That’s just one of the questions that will be answered in a programme on BBC1 tonight that harnesses pedal power to highlight how much electricity it takes to keep various appliances in the home running, and just how much we waste by leaving devices switched on.

Well, it turns out that we bike riders aren’t such a bad bunch after all, with the motion ‘cyclists are a menace’ soundly beaten in Monday evening’s debate in London organised by political magazine The Spectator.

A West Midlands school has banned children from taking their bicycles onto its grounds due to health and safety fears in a decision that flies in the face of government efforts to get more children cycling.

The Department of Justice has revealed that the number of cyclists who have been prosecuted at magistrates’ court for failing to stop at red traffic lights more than halved from 55 in 2006 to 22 in 2007. The figures have been eagerly seized upon by the Daily Mail as fuel for its ongoing campaign against so-called ‘lycra louts.’

The CTC has swiftly hit back at comments condemning cyclists contained in a House of Commons response to a National Audit Office report on pedestrian and cyclist safety published today and reported earlier on road.cc..