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Complaints upheld after police failed to act against driver who left cyclist with spinal injuries

Campbell Hutcheson was hit while stationary at a junction

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Council being sued by three cyclists injured as they rode through ford

All three women suffered fractures due to "more slippery than ice" road surface in Leicestershire

Shane Sutton (credit Alex Broadway, SWpix.com)

Shane Sutton alleged to have used Coke can full of urine to avoid positive drugs test

Richard Freeman's lawyer outlines questions she would have put to Australian had he not walked out of medical tribunal last month

Shane Sutton, March 2016 (picture credit Alex Whitehead, SWPix.com)

Richard Freeman’s lawyer tells tribunal Shane Sutton was ‘hostile … because he knows the truth’

Mary O’Rourke insists he ‘fled’ from cross-examination ‘before questions he knew were coming’

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Warwickshire man jailed after stealing police bait bike

Police tracked Darren Considine ‘within minutes’ of him taking bike in Leamington Spa

Near Miss of the Day 340: Pointless close pass as cyclist rides through door zone

Our regular series featuring close passes from around the country - today it's Dorset

Justice (Lonpicman, Wikimedia Commons)

Lorry driver whose view was blocked by dashboard tray table jailed for killing cyclist

Robert Bradbury's employer knew the tray table was removed so his vehicle could pass its MOT and reinstalled afterwards

Hammersmith Gyratory artists' impression

Hammersmith & Fulham greenlights two major West London cycle routes

News comes as TfL confirms work will start on Kew Bridge junction with Cycleway 9 next week

Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)

Updated: Pregnant cyclist seriously injured in hit and run crash loses baby

Incident happened in Leicester on Monday evening; man arrested has been released

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