Government

Local councils granted £168m by government to fill potholes

Surrey and Leicester among the councils to receive more than £3m each to mend holes

Birmingham City Council in 2,000 bike giveaway targeting people in deprived areas

3,000 more available for free hire in scheme designed to improve health plus access to employment

Harrogate councillor seeks £15k crowdsourcing for Sustrans report after council declines to pay

£4k raised already from local people and businesses for study into how to encourage cycling and improve facilities in N Yorks borough

Jenny Jones and RoadPeace launch new parliamentary group for road justice

New group to urge for change in investigation, prosecution and sentencing of road traffic cases

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

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

Dutch council ruin 80 bike locks to illegally remove bikes

Cyclists to be reimbursed for locks after expansion work to Amsterdam bike park was brought forward

Next on the timetable: double cycling? Calls for cycling proficiency to appear on the school curriculum

82 per cent call for cycling proficiency on the National Curriculum, new survey shows

Cyclists need to show more respect to motorists, says Salford councillor

Comments come as hundreds of riders take to Manchester’s streets to call for Space for Cycling

Fix motoring tax system to get people out of cars & on to bikes, says think tank

Active travel is important part of solution to impending car tax crunch

Chris Boardman says UK MEP candidates should be “ashamed” of attitudes on cycling

Just 1 response of 364 to a European Cyclists' Federation survey of candidates came from the UK

€220m will not solve Dutch train station bike parking chaos, says railway company

Fears that despite major government investment Dutch stations will still be 60,000 bike parking places short by 2030

Edinburgh council puts lorry drivers on bikes to learn cyclists’ perspective

Pilot scheme of classroom-based and practical training developed in partnership with Cycling Scotland

14 top cyclists call on councils to improve cycling facilities

Chris Boardman & Chris Hoy spearhead call to #ChooseCycling

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

New offence of causing serious injury while disqualified

NSW roads minister says cyclists should be licensed and banned from some roads – for their own safety

Minister Duncan Gay reacts to recent spate of serious injuries and deaths of cyclists in Australian state

DfT launches road sign consultation – with strong focus on cycling infrastructure

Planned changes including low-level traffic signals and removing feeder lanes to ASLs

David Cameron says “this is a cycling nation” – as DfT stats reveal bike use falling across England

Old adage that "a week is a long time in politics" still holds true in 2014

N Yorks launches Think! Bike campaign to warn motorists to look out for people on two wheels

Initiative follows big increase in motorcyclist fatalities and cyclists flocking to area ahead of Tour de France

Scottish Road Share campaign steers presumed liability law towards Parliament

Road safety group look to introduce European-style strict liability legislation to Scottish civil law

£2 million from Local Sustainable Transport Fund for nine projects across England

Schemes in Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire take three quarters of the money between them

More MEPs from UK than any other country voted against EU safer lorry proposals

Nigel Farage and fellow UKIP MEPs - past and present - led opposition to revised rules partly designed to protect cyclists and pedestrians

MEPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of safer lorries

Rounder cabs to reduce severity of injuries, improve driver visibility and reduce blind spots

Government urged to restrict use of cars as report says air pollution causes 30,000 premature deaths a year

Authors call for shift in transport policy, Sustrans says people being "posioned" by neighbours' exhaust fumes

Chris Boardman welcomes report on inactivity epidemic – but bashes government’s inactivity on cycling

"How many reports do we need?" asks British Cycling policy guru

Prioritise walking and cycling to halt UK’s inactivity epidemic, urges Parliamentary commission

All-Party Commission on Physical Activity's report calls on party leaders to draw up National Action Plan to tackle crisis

‘THINK! Cyclist’ safety poster campaign returns after DfT deems first run last year a success

Poster campaign to run in five cities, but did it change driver behaviour first time round?

Mail on Sunday slams MPs claiming cycling allowance of 20p a mile – we take a close look at the figures

Six MPs claimed a total of less than £150 in 2012/13 - 6,000 times lower than the £880,000 claimed for motoring

Derby closed road cycle track scrapped due to legal row over nature reserve (+ video)

Wildlife campaigners celebrate after council says project no longer financially viable; "a big missed opportunity" says Sustrans

Harrogate councillors clash over whether more should be done to transform town into cycling haven

Lib Dems and Tories on council go head to head over spending money to make cycling safer in town

TfL commissioner admits underspend of cycling budget is “an embarrassment”

Sir Peter Hendy tells London Assembly Transport Committee that mayor is pressing TfL hard to "get some stuff on the ground"