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Public fights back against bike theft

Dramatic footage this week emerged of the moment a gang of bike thieves in East London were confronted by members of the public. Thieves had used a cordless angle grinder in broad daylight to cut away locks from bicycles in Victoria Park as hundreds of people passed by in the afternoon sunshine. However, rather than ignore the noise and shower…

Make clean air a basic human right

Until the day that a healthy environment is universally recognised as a fundamental human right, our politicians must be held to account. After all, over one million deaths each month are attributable to unhealthy environments. European law has been a force for good in environmental matters as in so many other areas so it’s vital that Brexit does not derail…

Win a cycling multi-tool with flair

Only when a multi-functional tool is engineered to an extremely high standard does it cease to be a jack of all trades and become supremely useful in its own right. The Nutter is the Leatherman of the cycling world; a new generation of bicycle multi tool that is exceptionally simple, extremely functional and rather stylish-looking to boot. It combines the…

Bath launches clean air zone

Bath has become the first city in England outside London to charge a levy on polluting vehicles. The clean air zone operates in the city centre 24 hours a day throughout the year and charges apply to pre-euro 6 diesel and pre-euro 4 petrol vehicles, except private cars and motorbikes. Taxis, minibuses and other commercial vehicles that fail to meet…

Collapsible, reusable water bottle? We’ll drink to that

The Hydaway is a collapsible and reusable water bottle that aims to reduce the 50 billion plastic water bottles discarded each year in America alone. The brightly-coloured accessory makes an interesting alternative to a conventional bicycle bidon, too. The Hydaway water bottle is intended to be filled from the tap – a source that is cheaper, environmentally-friendlier and more rigorously…