A bit of community service and a 3 year driving ban for killing someone whilst driving. Previous for phone use too. This person should not be allowed to drive ever again. Life ban when convicted of killing whilst driving should be mandatory. He can bus. Or cycle. road.cc/news/van-dri...

“No idea how he hadn’t seen him”: Van driver avoids jail after killing cyclist riding with two rear lights

A van driver who killed a cyclist after failing to see him on the road, despite the 54-year-old riding with two rear lights, has been handed a suspended 10-month prison sentence.Graham Nash was riding...

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Not good

Kirsty Hughes@kirstyshughes.bsky.social · 21h ago

Burnham scrapping net zero criteria in public procurement...

Care company fined for running illegal children's homes in legal first

Care company fined for running illegal children's homes in legal first

The company pleaded guilty to failing to register three homes after being prosecuted by Ofsted.

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#DriverSparedJail www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Van driver who caused death of North Yorkshire cyclist sentenced

Robert Wade, 25, is given a suspended jail term following the death of 54-year-old Graham Nash.

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Really excited to feature some great state advocacy groups in this upcoming @bikeleague.org webinar about e-bikes, e-motos, and how states are dealing with the popularity and proliferation of these devices bikeleague.org/calendar/e-b... Happening next week, August 11th at 3 pm ET

E-bikes, E-motos, Oh My: Navigating New Devices and Laws for E-Bikes | League of American Bicyclists

Until recently, every bicycle was powered the same way, with feet on pedals. Today, e-bikes, e-scooters, and other small electrically-powered devices are very popular. While the 3-class system for e-b...

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Some towns didn't get xmas light put up because it was too dangerous for staff to install them.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · yesterday

Ex-PM Starmer said, in response to Raise the Colours terrorising people, ‘I am supporter of flags’, ‘I’m very encouraging of flags. I think they’re patriotic and I think they’re a great symbol of our nation’ and his family had ‘got St George’s flag in our flat’ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Well exactly... the pollution levels are really high on these roads. And not far off some of these roads are homes, schools, green spaces, etc...

Can’t help but think that this air pollution is also harming motorised road users and their passengers?

Laura Laker@lauralaker.bsky.social · yesterday

“It’s perverse that people who want to walk and cycle are penalised because the motor traffic is too polluting". National Highways closes cycling and walking routes beside heavily polluted roads lauralaker.substack.com/p/national-h...

Do you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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For $100,000 a month, Trump is basically legalizing and monetizing insider trading. By selling Wall Street hedge funds early access to market moving Truth Social posts, they are giving traders a massive head start on how new policy announcements will impact the markets.

Abolish the Home Office

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “The US is a uniquely violent high income country, with guns the leading cause of death for children followed by road traffic collisions”. “Additionally, the US is the only high income country that doesn’t guarantee healthcare”

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe | Devi Sridhar

Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

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In Feb, Argentina (Peter Thiel’s new home) passed “Milei's controversial labor reform,” which aims to spur investment by: “Empower[ing] employers to mandate 12-hour workdays (instead of the current 8)”, “Mak[ing] it easier for companies to fire workers,” “Limit[ing] the right to strike” 1/

Argentina passes Milei's controversial labor reform

Argentina's sweeping new reform is meant to create more formal jobs by reducing the burden on employers. Recent polls had shown that the nation was split on it.

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The biggest scandal ever, those responsible should resign!

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Scandal: Europol - Israel deal may allow exchange of sensitive personal data between the EU and Israel, which could be used against Palestinians in occupied territories.

#CriticalMass Boston. This was a memorial ride for Louisa Gag, a Boston city employee who was killed while riding her bike.

Whatever the good intentions Andy has for the kids he cares about many of us think this is precisely what will happen.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4d ago

New post just out: "Burnham's first mistake" Splitting 14 year olds into academic and vocational paths seems intuitive. But it's a terrible idea that risks increasing inequality, and closing down options for the young people that need them most. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...

Also, somewhat less importantly, all life on earth.

ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’

Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy

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Something I'll never understand - if I want to make substantial enough changes to my house, it has to go through a neighbourhood consultation process, but someone on my block can buy a vehicle that significantly increases the chances one of my kids gets run over.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

The UN warns that a developing strong El Niño will add fuel to "a planet already on fire," driving record high temperatures, extreme drought, & severe climate impacts worldwide through next year. tinyurl.com/y3rr3cu5 #ClimateChange #ElNino #ExtremeWeather

UN, scientists warn that strong El Nino will add fuel to 'a planet already on fire'

The United Nations warns that a strengthening El Nino is intensifying global weather extremes and is adding fuel to a planet that it says is already on fire.

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Little by little, a picture is emerging – one that shows how Reform UK has been funded and by whom. Each new detail raises more questions for Farage and the coterie around him.

The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships

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Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Kidnapping public health experts that are focusing on measles

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 4d ago

🚨 ABC News: The Johns Hopkins University researcher released after being detained by ICE at Maryland airport: Fatima Ameaka was held at a facility in Louisiana, according to her lawyer. The ICE kidnappings must stop. abcnews.com/US/johns-hop...

In January, I stopped using X as a communication channel because the platform facilitated the creation of illegal and deeply harmful images by its AI tool, Grok. I am renewing my call for all governmental and parliamentary communications to stop using X. The platform continues to facilitate

I can’t believe these arrests are still happening - the new PM could end this utterly absurd proscription if he chose. As Jonathon Porritt says - trying to save lives is not terrorism. Exposing this government’s complicity in genocide is not terrorism

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

There is a reason right wing influencers and media were setup to take footage of the so called "invasion of Ceuta" and why it was distributed so quickly online, including by top US officials with anti-EU stances. Spain needs to initiate an inquiry into this orchestrated attack.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5d ago

The "invasion in Ceuta" is not a "mass migration" event, it is an orchestrated breach; participants stormed the beach (from land), shopped around, the majority left home afterwards. This was likely organised online through WhatsApp or Facebook by U.S./Musk influence networks.

Hope they work and become available in the US eventually along with Chinese EV’s etc.

Crypto mullah Faryar Shirzad is begging Congress for a government bailout dubbed the CLARITY act. Despite lobbyists handing out millions to politicians, polls show more Americans oppose Cryptocurrency than back it. Voters see crypto as Trump-run Ponzi scheme disguised as a money laundering racket.

'Major transformation': Coinbase exec says crucial Crypto bill must pass | RISING

OPINION: Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, joins the show for a deep dive on the CLARITY Act, which seeks to establish a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry. #FaryarSh...

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On Thursday 30th July 2026 there were 1,738 cyclists northbound and 1,610 cyclists southbound.