Crime & Legal

Trek rejects calls to stop supplying US police forces, says “bikes can play positive role”

Brand instead outlines diversity programme including creating “1,000 cycling industry jobs for people of colour”

Councils get new powers to fine drivers parking in bike lanes

Local authorities will be able to use CCTV to catch law-breaking motorists from 22 June

The price of pop-up bike lanes for one city’s cyclists? Compulsory registration, helmets and side mirrors

Riders in Davao City, Philippines, will have to display licence plates on their bikes

Jez Vine Retribution – jail for person who tried to sell bike nicked from NHS worker neighbour of TV and radio host

Crime victim had spotted her bike for sale on Gumtree – but Met only intervened after Channel 5 presenter’s tweet got top cop involved

Near Miss of the Day 421: ‘Must Get In Front’ driver overtakes cyclist at narrow bridge … then pulls into car park

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

Another cyclist assaulted – this time in Worcestershire

Police are seeking four people who attacked rider, leaving him with head injury

Cyclist has nose, cheek and thumb broken in road rage attack

Police appeal for witnesses to incident in West Bromwich last Friday

Fuji suspends sales of bikes to US police forces after seeing them used against protestors

Police officers have been filmed using bikes as weapons during protests resulting from the killing of George Floyd

Near Miss of the Day 420: Instant karma as driver makes close pass on cyclist – and immediately gets pulled over by police officer following him

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

Mr Loophole lawyer says lockdown has led to “culture of toxic cycling”

Nick Freeman uses World Bicycle Day to repeat calls for licensing and insurance for bike riders

Off-duty PC who was on bike ride broke pensioner’s jaw after close pass

Stuart Box, formerly of Avon & Somerset Police, has been barred from policing after misconduct hearing

Council leader rejects pop-up cycle lanes because he believes bikes and cars cannot mix safely

“The challenge is insurmountable,” says Mike Bird, who leads Conservative-controlled Walsall Council

Near Miss of the Day 419: Driver reverses on blind bend, plus close pass ahead of narrow bridge (includes swearing)

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

Press watchdog rejects complaints over Rod Liddle “piano wire” column

IPSO says anti-cyclist column did not breach Editors' Code of Practice

Near Miss of the Day 418: Dangerous overtake by Howdens Joinery lorry driver

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

Two cyclists killed in Buckinghamshire crash involving Volkswagen Golf car

Driver is assisting police in relation to double fatality in High Wycombe yesterday

Cyclist who uses e-bike as mobility aid injured after object thrown from car

Police in Sunderland appeal for wintnesses including Good Samaritan who helped cyclist to come forward

James May urges Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “bomb us with bicycles” with £80bn HS2 cash

Grand Tour presenter also says not wearing a helmet "makes you look like someone making a tiresome point”

Near Miss of the Day 417: Van driver makes close pass on tandem cyclists – then jumps red light

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

Police escort group of four cyclists off Cheshire motorway

“Push bikes and fast roads do not mix,” say officers after incident on M53 yesterday

Nottingham cyclist hospitalised after axe attack

Police say victim was riding with two others when unprovoked attack happened

Cyclists to be allowed back into Richmond Park – but only at weekday commute times for now

The Royal Parks says “managed re-introduction” of cycling will start on Tuesday

Fractured spine for Yorkshire cyclist after hit-and-run motorist ‘deliberately’ drove at riders

Police appeal after incident near York on Bank Holiday Monday

Sunday Times says Rod Liddle “piano wire” column “not intended to be taken seriously”

Newspaper excuses anti-cyclist piece with exact phrase that Cycling UK had said would be an “inappropriate” defence of column

Cycling UK complains to Sunday Times over Rod Liddle’s “piano wire at neck height” column – published on weekend a cyclist was hospitalised by riding into such a trap

Charity says “words have consequences” and article was “inflammatory, in seriously poor taste” and condoned criminal act

Near Miss of the Day 415: Cheshire Police issue close pass compilation

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

Covidiots? Lancashire cyclists snapped on group ride contrary to lockdown rules

Longstanding cycling campaigner says riders he photographed are “getting us all a bad name”

Cyclist spent hour in canal after fall before rescue

Local resident eventually heard rider's shouts for help and called police

Chris Boardman calls for presumed liability law to help get more people commuting by bike

“We need legislation that properly values people travelling actively,” says champion cyclist turned campaigner

‘Tempting’ – Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle on stretching piano wire across road to target cyclists

Comments come a month after a rider near Leeds was injured by exactly that type of trap