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Halfords benefits from lockdown cycle boom with bike sales up 34% By City & Finance Reporter for the Daily Mail Published: 21:45 GMT, 14 January 2021 | Updated: 21:45 GMT, 14 January 2021 Halfords has benefited from a lockdown cycle boom with bike sales up from last year Halfords has benefited from a lockdown cycle … Read more
Britons can sit on benches, go on bike rides of up to 70 miles but should think carefully about meeting a friend for a coffee and must never go to the supermarket without a mask, Britain’s policing minister said today. Kit Malthouse also accused the public of ‘searching for the loopholes in the law’ and … Read more
The number of vaccines Britain gives out before lockdown rules can start to be loosened will depend on the ‘risk appetite’ of the Government and how well they work in real life, scientists say. There are around 31.7million people on the official waiting list for a jab, which includes everyone over the age of 50, … Read more
Furious Tory MPs have demanded resignations from the Cabinet after Boris Johnson effectively cancelled Christmas for 16million people in England as he imposed tough new restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Prime Minister announced yesterday afternoon that London, the South East and the East of England were being moved into a new Tier … Read more
Cars today reclaimed a loathed west London cycle lane after bollards were removed following a backlash from drivers and local businesses. Workmen finished ripping out the plastic barriers on Kensington High Street this weekend, despite progress being disrupted last week when XR supporters glued themselves to their van. The cycle lane became the unlikely battleground … Read more
It’s the narrow battleground that sparked a passionate debate in this newspaper between actor Nigel Havers and broadcaster Jeremy Vine over the cycle lanes springing up all over Britain. After Havers blasted a West London council for turning Kensington High Street into a ‘fume-choked Bedlam’, cycling celebrity Vine hit back by saying that if the new … Read more
Councillors today vowed not to bring back bollards on Kensington’s hated cycle lane despite Mayor Sadiq Khan’s threat to take control of the road – as Extinction Rebellion threatened a second protest to save it. Work to remove the plastic barriers continued last night and the westbound route it now clear, a day after labourers … Read more
A Tory council today vowed to continue to rip up a ‘disastrous’ cycle lane in West London despite Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists trying to stop them. Workmen last night managed to remove 38 plastic bollards on Kensington High Street before left-wing demonstrators glued themselves to their van, forcing them to stop. But defiant Kensington and … Read more
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists have tonight tried to stop the ‘disastrous’ Covid cycle lane in High Street Kensington from being torn up by the Tory council after it was inundated with ‘hundreds’ of complaints. The radical Left-wing demonstrators, who infamously disrupted the distribution of British newspapers including the Mail, the Times and the Sun in … Read more
Cycling activists descended on an exclusive west London shopping street today to protest the removal of its hated Covid cycle lanes after the council decided to tear up the ‘disastrous’ scheme following hundreds of complaints. Councillors said the lanes on Kensington High Street would be removed by tomorrow after a huge backlash – with the … Read more