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Saturday, 13 February 2016

BBC News

• Merger for NI online bike firm announcedOnline bike retailer Chain Reaction Cycles, which sells to customers across the world from NI, is to merge with Portsmouth-based company, Wiggle.

The Guardian

• Ice cycles: the northerly world cities leading the winter bicycle revolutionOulu in Finland and Winnipeg in Canada are two winter cities with remarkably different stories. Oulu is just like Winnipeg – except for the bike paths stretching for miles in every direction and the thousands of people riding bicycles in the snow – says Winter Bike to Work Day founder Anders SwansonIt happened for me three years ago in Turku: the moment I realised that cycling in the snow was going to become normal. I was winding my way up Finland, en route to the world’s first ever Winter Cycling Congress, hosted by a city called Oulu some 400 miles north. It had been snowing non-stop for a w...

London Evening Standard

• Circle line closed: TfL to shut route for entire weekendThe Circle line will shut completely for the entire weekend, TfL has confirmed.

Other Regional Press

• �1m tunnel revamp will provide route to science site for cyclists and pedestrians A NEW route for cyclists and pedestrians through a disused rail tunnel near Didcot will link up major employment sites in the Science Vale area.