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Wood n’ Wheels, the new cycle hire centre and bike shop at Hamsterley Forest, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, was struck by thieves in the early hours of Thursday morning.

In today's reshuffle, Tony Blair has sacked cyclist Charles Clarke as Home Secretary and moved Alistair Darling from the Department for Transport to the Department for Trade and Industry.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Trek, has announced a voluntary recall of certain Chinese-made helmets because they "do not comply with CPSC safety standards for impact resistance."

Bike It is the bike industry funded cycling promotion scheme which aims to encourage school children to take to two wheels. The scheme has just doubled in size and appointed a former police chief inspector as manager. The podcast kicks off with inspiration from Bike It officer Vicki Hill.

This would mean bikes would be free of tariffs, making them cheaper to buy and so, in theory, bought by more people leading to more cycling, and less auto-congestion. This possibility has “gone largely unnoticed by the international bicycling community,” said Matt Sholler, director of development & communications at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of New York.