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On 16th June, Team Phonak announced that presenting sponsor iShares had signed a three-year contract to become the team's title sponsor. The Barclays-owned company has now announced it will no longer sponsor any part of pro cycle sport, a fall-out from the Floyd Landis doping scandal.

The Leicester section of the BBC website is currently running a poll on whether or not cyclists should be forced to wear helmets.

'CometGirl', a trainee solicitor, has sent a thought-provoking letter to West Mercia police, the force that booked a cyclist for failing to show 'reasonable consideration', a clause in the 1988 Road Traffic Act, ignoring two cars which passed the cyclist by illegally straddling solid white 'no overtaking' lines. PLUS: Listen to an audio interview about the Daniel Cadden case' with the CTC's Yannick Read

After a cyclist was fined for using a road in Telford instead of a cycle-path even the UK’s most zealous motorist – the anti speed-camera campaigner Paul Smith - called the decision “barking mad.” The judge in the case is the same one who released a policeman caught driving 84mph in a 30mph zone…

World-famous designer Paul Smith has paired with Mercian Cycles to produce £3000 bikes that will be available in Paul Smith shops.