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SPORT Clegg backs major cycling spending


Te government is to invest £214m into making cycling safer as part of plans to double the number of UK journeys made on bikes by 2020. Deputy prime minister


Nick Clegg – who made the announcement at a recent cycling summit in Bristol – said it was the largest sin- gle investment in cycling ever made. He added that it brought the total invested in cycling by the coalition government to £588m. “I want to bring cycling


London 2012 and Le Tour de France have increased interest in cycling


from the Alps and onto British streets,” he said. “Te inspiration of the 2012 Olympics and 2014 Tour de France starting in Yorkshire has started a revolution in cycling for everyone, not just in velodromes, not necessar- ily in lycra, but for going to school or to work.” Te £214m will be divided into two separate


funds. A total of £114m will be invested to sup- port the Cycling Ambition Cities Programme for the next three years (Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich and Oxford) to accelerate their development of local cycling networks.


The remaining £100m will be used to


improve the conditions for cyclists and walkers travelling alongside and crossing the Strategic Road Network – which comprises Britain’s most important and busiest roads. Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Chris


Boardman welcomed the plans. “This is a great stepping stone on the


road to creating a safer environment and enabling more Brits to choose cycling as their preferred mode of transport,” he said. Details: http://lei.sr?a=6x3g8


Mystery surrounds Spurs stadium site fire


The cause of a fire that gutted a business involved in a bitter dispute with English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur FC still remains unclear. Te fire at the Archway Sheet Metal factory


– sitauted in north London – was detected in the early hours of Tuesday 25 November. Te blaze destroyed most of the building


before it was brought under control. Located just yards from Tottenham’s White


Hart Lane stadium, the family-owned com- pany was the last remaining business that was standing in the way of Spurs’ plans to build a new £400m ground on the site. Te owners, the Josif family, challenged


Tottenham Hotspur’s plans at the High Court in September because of a compulsory pur- chase order of land being approved for the site in July. Te challenge caused further delay to the stadium plans – and means that Tottenham will likely be forced to play an entire season without a home stadium. It is understood that the fire and the demise


of the building could delay the plans even further – unless the owners of the destroyed factory agree to sell the land to Tottenham. In a statement to the media however, the Josif


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital Te Archway Sheet Metal factory – before the fire


family vowed to return and rebuild the business at the site. Prior to the fire, the Josif family had publicly revealed that they’d been the subject of threats “for months” – including ones that had suggested the building would be razed to the ground in a threatened arson attack. Fire officials continue to investigate the site


but have declined to speculate the cause – other than saying it is being treated as “suspicious”. Details: http://lei.sr?a=H4c9R


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