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Saturday, 10 April 2021

Times Online

• How to beat the bicycle thieves [Subscription]Uninsured riders pay the price as crooks capitalise on a shortage of cycles

Other Regional Press

• Key workers are given hundreds of bikes during year of lockdownKathryn McNicoll, of Cyclox, and Josh Lenthall, of Active Oxfordshire, celebrate the first anniversary of an important cycling project.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• £18 million announced for cycle training for children and their familiesTransport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced £18 million for cycle training across the country to ensure children and their families have the confidence to choose active travel, as the government encourages everyone to choose to walk or cycle where possible. The funding, which is managed via the Bikeability Trust charity, will go toward delivering high-quality, practical on-road cycle training as a modern day equivalent of the ‘cycling proficiency’ scheme many parents will themselves have undertaken during their school days. Bikeability, brought in from 2007, goes beyond ...