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Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Contributor to . Author: Roads Were Not Built for Cars & Bike Boom.

Ouseburn Valley, NCL
Joined April 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 May 2017

    Missed the "revive 1930s-era cycleways" Kickstarter? By popular demand it's now joinable here:

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  2. Well, listens, but he's not given the real cash – or political backing – to do what he knows is needed.

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  3. Good to see all the media coverage of the report calling for more cycleways. But the health watchdog has been making these calls annually for years! Gov't ain't listening. See:

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    My bit on Sajid Javid, Chris Grayling and various other members of our overlord dream team

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  5. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    The pilot of the B17, Lt John Kriegshauser, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for minimising loss of life. They were returning from a bombing raid & witnesses said they circled the park b4 avoiding the children & crashing into the tree-filled hill Part 2...

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    5 hours ago

    It’s truly amazing that so many people are engaged in this. Here’s a reminder of what it’s all about. Tony Foulds was 8 when a US plane crashed in Sheffield in 1944. He was in the park and has remembered the 10 crew members ever since This is part 1...

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    I - and a whole raft of my colleagues at - have become obsessed with helping Tony and trying to make sure his years of silence service don’t go unnoticed. We will we will and we will be LIVE in the park on the 75th anniversary

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    Trump, hours ago, on Rashida Tlaib’s “Impeach the MFer" comment: "I thought her comments were disgraceful. I think she dishonored herself and dishonored her family using language like that."

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    Dan. Can you please DM me and we can take things from there regards the possibility of providing a flypast. Brilliant story, and a fantastic gentleman.

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  10. Glad to have you back! Will be using soon. Got to hire me more superbikes!

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  11. In theory, I should have made £000s in referral fees but many people chicken out. In truth, you’ve really got to like riding in traffic. At night.

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  12. People (like my kids) think I’m weird but I like riding at night in the freezing cold for a couple of hours. In fact, I’m desperate for the snow to fall. Already got a spike tyre on the front of my cargo bike.

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  13. Doing a shift. Keeps me fit after a day slaving over a screen. Doctor wife not back until 11pm anyway so late tea.

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  14. By ⁦⁩ So, yes, it’s good. “All aboard Chris Grayling’s Brexit pizza ferry – what could possibly go wrong?” &scissors

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    “Those joyless Brussels bureaucrats are trying to ban bendy bana -“ Oh.

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  16. Retweeted
    16 Dec 2018

    Getting to be bitter cold out there now. Part of an ongoing series of outdoor works at Jesmond Dene.Thanks to the public who said hello

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Oh great. More liberal quackery from that bastion of left-wing hippies at... ...checks details... ...Forbes. Seriously though, follow - always great stuff.

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  18. Soon there will be a government request for a flotilla of ships to do a test run to Dunkirk. That’s the spirit!

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  21. Jan 3

    The bike was a one-off, produced in 1966 for the Raleigh salesperson of the year. It was won by the later founder of Univega. 2/3

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