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Cyclists are treated lamentably treatment in the press. In his article about anti-cycling bias at the BBC, Peter Walker illustrates how poisonous and skewed the public narrative about everyday cycling has become, but this blinkered, over-generalised and fallacious media coverage takes an altogether darker turn when reporting cyclist deaths....

A school in south London this week defended its decision to force pupils who wish to cycle to school to display number plates. Even though the school's policy is impracticable, undesirable and arguably an over-stepping of its responsibilities, the media ignored the exploration of these arguments preferring instead the usual hand wringing...

With seasonal chill in the air most mornings, time has come to reach for extra layers. Our giveaway this week comprises a wind jacket, neck warmer and gloves worth £100. The lightweight Primal women's wind jacket (size small) teams water resistant Altero fabric with a microfleece collar to keep you cosy. The Stole Goat neck warmer takes...

Daylight Savings Time (DST), the twice yearly changing of the clocks across Europe causes disruption and has been shown to be damaging to health. Britain ran an experiment between 1968-1971 in which British Summer Time was left in place all year round; clocks went forward in March 1968 and not put back until October 1971. The experiment...

Future generations will react to today's ambivalence towards road danger in the same way as we recoil at the thought of the open sewers of Victorian London. So says Danny Dorling, a professor from Sheffield University argues road safety is a public health not a transport issue, and until it is properly addressed people will continue to die....

Air pollution in British cities can damage our health from before we are born, dog us throughout our lives, and for over 40,000 of us every year, kill us. Our poisoned air affects all of us, no matter our age and recent studies highlights the damage extending far beyond the lungs. Earlier this year, research revealed that air pollution...

SNAP is a furniture bracket that allows you to transform bicycle wheels into coffee tables. No tools are required for the simple brackets to transform any piece of old board - or even a bicycle wheels into coffee tables - into a unique piece of furniture. The donor item does not need to be drilled, which means you can use glass, marble or a...

Do you remember passing your driving test? Forget the feeling of new-found independence or the relief at no longer having to fork out for lessons - do you remember how you drove during the test? You will have religiously checked your mirrors before signalling and manoeuvring. You will have kept both hands on the steering wheel. You will...

More than a quarter of the world’s adults (1.4 billion) have greater risk of type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia and cardiovascular disease, because they do too little physical activity, according to data from the first study to estimate global physical activity trends over time. The study was undertaken by researchers from the World Health...

Nobody knows for certain why pretty much every car available for sale in Britain today is capable of breaking so comprehensively the national speed limit, but an even greater mystery is why most public service vehicles are not fitted with speed limiters. Research has demonstrated that buses fitted with speed limiters act as effective...