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Police reaction to East London bike-jackings “shockingly poor” says cycling campaigner

Latest incident on Easter Sunday saw man robbed of bike at knifepoint

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Cyclist produces homemade road signs informing drivers that cyclists are allowed to use the full lane

David Fox was tired of being told to stay in the bike lane

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Cycle funding is discriminatory says UKIP candidate

Argues that just because Newcastle Council have received a £10m grant ‘they don’t have to spend it’

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No appetite for the pavé in Bristol – cobbles lifted and cut in half to create smoother surface for cyclists

Work is part of the council's vision to improve road surfaces across the city

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Leeds could see 20mph zones all over the city as figures reveal shocking road death toll

All residential streets could become 20mph as council tries to halve KSI figures over 10 years

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Volvo Life Paint comes under fire while freebies fly off the shelves

Temporary reflective coating criticised as “victim blaming”

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Video round-up: Cycling on the edge – railings, roads, and rollers

There's often a thin line between safety and danger in cycling - this video round-up rides that line

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Health effects of exercise outweigh negatives of air pollution, study finds

Huge Danish study finds you should keep riding even when air's bad

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Cyclist suffers serious head injuries after collision with runner racing in London Park

Greenwich Park Tough Run participant and cyclist collided; runner unhurt

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Minister opens £1.5m Bike Hub at Brighton railway station

500 secure parking spaces plus repair and maintenance facilities at new facility also open to non-rail passengers

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Spin London urban bike show comes to central London

New venue brings bikes, art, food & coffee combination to heart of capital

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Kingston overhauls Mini Holland plans after criticism

London borough's new proposals include segregation absent from previous version

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Brighton close to getting cycle hire scheme – but are cost-benefit figures ludicrously optimistic?

Council awaits £1m funding decision this week based on hopeful reports of benefits

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TfL scraps cycle to school partnership as it scrambles for cash to pay for superhighways and Quietways

Mayor's costly pet cycle projects force re-evaluation of TfL's cycling budget

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Are you a cycling sinner or winner? Newcastle stallholder uses megaphone to berate antisocial riders

Karl Fitzpatrick channels London street preacher - but is cycling in pedestrian zone as dangerous as some assume?

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Major businesses urge party leaders to Choose Cycling ahead of general election

Companies including GSK, National Grid, Orange and Sky tell politicians what they want to see in manifestoes

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Wandsworth Council unveils shortlisted designs for new cycling and pedestrian bridge across Thames

More than 70 entries whittled down to a final four, with winner to be chosen in the autumn

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Birmingham’s Cycle Revolution will cause traffic chaos, warns council’s Tory opposition leader

CTC council chair says Robert Alden doesn't "get" cycling as councillor calls for money to be spent on off-road routes

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Spinlister & Van Moof team up for radical new hire bike system

No municipal ownership, no docking stations, no corporate sponsorship - it's the anti-Boris Bike

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Boris Johnson digs in as construction starts on north-south London cycle superhighway

New routes will be "a whole lot safer" than painted lanes, says Andrew Gilligan

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Congestion charge made London’s roads safer for cycling, researchers find

Less driving equals fewer crashes, say boffins

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Council boss’s road trip to France on golden Brompton to showcase investment opportunities in West London

Golden bike 'represents golden opportunity' to invest in Hounslow, West London say council

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Cyclists to be allowed on Croydon’s pedestrianised main shopping street

London borough authorises 18-month trial to allow riders to legally avoid dangerous detour

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Taxpayer to fund £3.5m annual maintenance bill for London’s Garden Bridge

'It's simply not a transport scheme' say opponents of bridge where groups of eight have to book and bikes can't travel

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UK’s 50 worst air pollution blackspots all in London

All 50 show double the EU limit for nitrogen dioxide

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Dundee City Council wants cyclists to help shape strategy

Views on future of cycling in Scotland's fourth largest city sought at public meeting next Monday evening

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Video: Parisian prankster drafts Metro train – on a Vélib’ hire bike

Florian Dagobert cautioned and ordered to attend awareness training

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Cardiff man spots his stolen bike – and locks it up so he can get it back

Ian Fernando reunited with bike seven months after it was stolen

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Widow of Brian Dorling urges cyclists not to jump red lights, for their family’s sake

Rider killed at Bow in 2011 went through red light, as did lorry driver - family's compensation reduced as a result

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Video round-up: Chris Froome: Superman, crash fraud, road rash + more

Also featuring some in-saddle frozen Finnish poetry… so brace yourself

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