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Tuesday, 06 December 2016

The Guardian

• Cycling heaven and Hull: can the city recapture its 1950s pedal power heyday?Poet Philip Larkin described Hull as ‘very nice and flat for cycling’ – and in the 1950s a third of the population rode regularly. It’s still flat, so why is this pioneer cycling city back-pedalling?“I wish I could think of one nice thing I could tell you about Hull,” Philip Larkin moaned to his friend DJ Enright not long after moving to the city to become university librarian in 1955. “Oh yes … it’s very nice and flat for cycling.”It’s a shame the poet’s best known pronouncement about his adopted city was a thinly veiled sneer, not least because at the time Hull was buzzing with bikes. Accord...

The Telegraph

• Cycling with headphones kills mother as coroner says she caused her own death

Times Online

• Khan doubles spending on London cycling schemes [subscription]Sadiq Khan has announced that investment in cycling in London over the next five years will be almost double the amount spent under his predecessor as mayor of London, Boris Johnson.