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Yesterday morning, as Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced his new Cycle Safety Accident Plan, news broke that a 21-year-old male cyclist had been killed after being hit by an HGV at the junction of Weston Street and Snowfields in Southwark. A 30-year-old man was arrested and has been bailed while police carry out their investigations.

Members of the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) have outlined their detailed proposals for a ‘BikeGrid’ providing key north to south and east to west routs for cyclists across the centre of the capital to Transport for London, first mooted last year.

The BikeGrid, which uses proposed cycle lanes or traffic-calmed roads to cross the heart of London would connect the arrival points in the city of Mayor Boris Johnson’s proposed Cycle Superhighways, and are also a response to the scrapping of the London Cycle Network, which had only been 60% completed.

The capital’s schoolchildren are at risk of missing out on cycling training under new rules being introduced by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson according to new claims by the London Cycling Campaign.

The LCC says that in 2009/10, around £3 million was spent on cycling training in the city for both children and adults, but warns that funding could fall dramatically during 2010/11.

A BBC London TV programme aired last night, and available to watch now on the BBC iPlayer for viewers throughout the UK, has hit out at ‘Lycra louts’ who ride through red lights and on pavements, but failed to acknowledge the dangers that cyclists themselves face daily on the capital’s roads.

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is hosting its first cycling forum on Wednesday 10 March, with local residents invited to give their views on how the council can "help make a difference for cyclists and let us know how we can improve cycling."

Speakers at the event, which starts at 6pm at the Mosaic Music Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road SW5 0SW, include Philip Darnton, chairman of Cycling England, and Tom Bogdanowicz, local campaigns manager at London Cycle Campaign.

The Tour de France may be the world’s biggest annual sporting event, but however much of a cycling fan you are, it has to be admitted, perhaps grudgingly, that in even-numbered years the World Cup or Olympic Games are the sporting showpieces that capture the public’s imagination.

This summer, however, a bike ride visiting the home grounds of all of London’s clubs aims to bring together the worlds of football and cycling to help raise money for charity.

Local cycling campaigners in South East London are celebrating the success of a campaign to reduce the speed limit in Greenwich Park from 30mph to 20mph, and are now seeking the help of their local MP to ensure that the necessary legislation can be passed before the forthcoming General Election.

Following pressure from campaigners including bereaved friends and families of accident victims and the London Cycle Campaign, the Metropolitan Police is to reconstitute its Commercial Vehicle Education Unit (CVEU) under a new name, the Commercial Vehicle Unit (CVU).

Last October, Mayor of London Boris Johnson came under heavy criticism after he announced that he had decided to disband the specialist lorry safety unit, particularly because since the start of 2009, eight cyclists, six of them women, had been killed by lorries in the capital.

A London Cycling Campaign (LCC) official has called for government limits on car advertising as a way of encouraging cycling.

Tom Bogdanowicz, the LCC's campaigns and development officer, says the £500m spent in the UK every year on car adverts should be scaled back, and cycling promoted as a healthy and sustainable form of transport.

London cyclists who but a Trek will be helping contribute to schemes funded by the London Cycling Campaign. Trek has pledge to make donation based on the number of its bikes sold in London to the London Cycling Campaign.