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Accell Group N.V. is adjusting its profit forecast upwards. For the full year 2004 the company now expects an increase of earnings per share by at least 30 percent compared to 2003. Accell Group is proposing a stock split.

The November magazine is available as a PDF download.

Take a look at these qualifications: MA MB BChir (Cantab.), MFPHM, MRCGP, MBA.* Impressive, huh? Dr Richard Keatinge is a bright bloke. Maybe the BMA - now in favour of cycle helmet compulsion - will listen to him? He's concerned that helmet compulsionists only quote from a skewed selection of reports, some of which are viewed with suspicion by statisticians. Opposing views, based on robust science, are swept under the carpet. He's out to change that.

The new National Standard for cycle training in England has been operational for some months but it got its official, hard-launch in Tuesday's White paper on Public Health.

The December edition of Ride, the British motorcycle magazine, has an "exclusive investigation" on the Bic lock opening trick that's been exercising minds in the bicycle trade since September. However, the four-page piece fingers tubular cylinder locks from Oxford Products rather than Kryptonite. "It's possible some Kryptonite locks are affected," said the Google-averse writer of the article.