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17-year-old David Paine of Stevenage was killed at a party last Friday night. He worked for Marshall's Cycles of Roebuck.

It's not just motorised journeys that matter, the European Commission must put walking and cycling at the heart of climate change policy, says Sustrans.

Fort William has again won the award for the best Downhill and 4-Cross Mountain Bike World Cup events of the 2005 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series.

Ten wholesalers have been chosen.

As some existing IBDs shut up shop for good, others open for the first time. There's a net loss but not as great as in other retail sectors. In a parliamentary answer given by Scotland's enterprise minister in the Scottish parliament it's revealed that, between 1998 and 2004, Scotland lost half of its greengrocers, a third of its butchers and a quarter of its fishmongers.