Crime & Legal

Irish man cops fine for careless driving around off-duty police

Careful who you honk and swear at around Cork

12 bikes stolen from Help For Heroes riders at Gloucestershire campsite

Victims including injured former services personnel were due to take part in Cotswold triathlon

Video: “Unpickable” Forever Lock is picked

Video shows lock being breached with a bump key

Police hunt rider in Team Sky kit who assaulted fellow cyclist in Lancashire

Incident took place last week on Preston's Guild Wheel route

Maximum fines for traffic offences to rise — but will it have any effect in practice?

Means-testing of fines already sets practical limits

Roads Minister to look into harsher penalties as study finds texting at the wheel more dangerous than drink driving

Reaction times for phone calls and texters worse than cannabis and alcohol users: calls for one year ban penalties

Suffolk policeman to appear in court on charge of assaulting cyclist

Officer also faces dangerous driving charge following incident in Ipswich in February

Huge 200-bike theft at Scott headquarters in Switzerland

£660k worth of brand new and unreleased bikes stolen in weekend HQ raid

Three men in court after South African cyclist films gunpoint bikejacking (+ video)

Helmet camera footage helps police track down suspects

Video: Cyclist robbed of bike at gunpoint – and films it on his GoPro

Dramatic helmet camera footage from South Africa's Western Cape province

Big jump in number of cyclists fined in Cambridge in 2013

More than 700 fixed penalty notices dished out last year - up 46 per cent on 2012 and near-fivefold rise since 2011

Driver fined £625 & given five points for attacking cyclist with car

Deliberately hitting a cyclist: "driving without due care and attention"

Council chief-executive who led Blackpool to become Cycling Town killed in hit-and-run

Tributes paid to Steve Weaver as French police hunt driver

Police appeal after car used as weapon to assault and rob cyclist in Preston

Lancashire Constabulary issue witness appeal after incident a fortnight ago

Police stop cyclist – and find portable crystal meth lab in backpack

Lab was cooking and could have exploded at any time, says West Virginia officer who responded to tip-off

Video: Do you feel lucky, punk? How San Francisco police catches bike thieves

SFPD to bike thieves: "You better believe we’re gonna be coming for you.”

LCC welcomes casualty fall, but says police must target careless drivers

Campaign group responds to launch of "Son of Safeway" operation in London yesterday

Video: Alabama driver arrested after posting anti-cyclist rants

"I’m going to hurt one of them one of these days"

96mph in a 30 limit & 149mph on a motorway: figures reveal insane speeding on roads of England & Wales

"A limit not a target to beat," says road safety body

Cyclist in Canada gets stolen bike back – after spotting it on a bus

Owner retrieves his ride after chasing after bus in his van

Is it a cop? Is it a box? Actually, it’s both. CardboCop credited with lowering bike thefts

Not so much plastic policeman as cardboard bobby in Boston, USA - but it does seem to work

Police recover stolen bike, then give it away — and leave owner with just the pedals

Call taker error leaves South wales man bikeless

What’s Britain’s most stolen bike? The answer will surprise you

Not carbon bling, but mid-range flat-bar commuter bikes turn out to be thief magnets

Metropolitan Police arrest 45 people for cycle theft in a single day

Wednesday's crackdown involved 400 officers across London's 32 boroughs

Man charged with handling stolen goods in relation to theft of 3 customised bikes in SE London

20-year-old to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court later this month

Swindon thieves grab £20k-worth of bikes from secure garage

Are specialists targeting high-end bikes?

Lorry driver who left cyclist with “massive life-threatening injuries” jailed for 16 weeks

Sentence & five-year ban was maximum magistrates could impose

Police seek SE London youth photographed riding stolen £2k bike

Bike was one of three stolen last week from GB age group duathlete

Police caution one cyclist and seek two others in connection with violent road rage attacks on drivers

Cyclists took revenge on drivers who had near miss or tooted horn on passing

Longer sentences for banned drivers who kill or injure other road users

New offence of causing serious injury while disqualified