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A week ago we awoke to the unimaginable and heartbreaking news of terrorist attacks on Israel from Gaza by Hamas. We repeat our call for Hamas to release all hostages immediately, and for the protection of innocent civilian lives in Israel and Gaza. My statement:

We rode & walked to remember Harry & Gao Gao today. It was incredibly emotional to hear tributes from a family friend of Harry & sister of Gao Gao. They were both incredible individuals who should still be here with us. Thank you to everyone who came. #VisionZero #SaferStreetsNow

28 years of wonderful friendship since our first term at university. There should have been many more years ahead. Ailana Kamelmacher Dec 1976-Oct 2023. Much loved. thegrocer.co.uk/people/ailana-… X

On Whiston Road there now stands a white memorial bike. This is where Gao Gao, 36, suffered critical injuries causing her death after being hit by a car driven by Martin Reilly. A bike to remember Gao Gao & to remind Hackney Council that Whiston Rd must be filtered. Mete Coban MBE

I was in court for the latest stage in the sentencing of a hit-and-run driver who killed a young mother as she cycled home. The CCTV of the incident was horrifying. The victim impact statements from her widower and sister will stay with me forever. standard.co.uk/news/crime/gao…

Met police commander Kyle Gordon tells London Assembly: "Every 23 minutes, somebody is killed or seriously injured on the UK's roads." There are 38m vehicles in the UK. Seven million are "non-compliant" eg untaxed, no insurance or MoT.

Hackney, Dalston Lane. 20mph Zone. Driver takes out two sets of traffic lights, iron railings and the front wall of this house. Now tell me why we don’t need mandatory speed limiters on cars ? Second incident in a week Caroline Woodley Mete Coban MBE

Lovely (if muddy) walk round Abney Park today. Thanks to Susan Fajana-Thomas OBE, DCL, FRSA and Hackney Council for listening to local residents and not banning dogs off lead!

Again we're hearing reports from people cycling about near misses on Chatham Place. We agree that "It doesn't really make any sense why Chatham Place has a closure at the junction with Morning Lane, but Belsham Street doesn't." Mete Coban MBE Hackney Council reddit.com/r/londoncyclin…

Your timely reminder that the current demonization of cyclists in the right-wing media is a smokescreen for the everyday dangerous driving in London. This has become normalized. Hit-and-run figures in London 2022 are insane, no mention of these in the press

Sad day for City of London. Until today it had an exemplary transport policy. The Court of Common Council’s vote to allow taxis through Bank Junction during the day is a retrograde step and one the City Fathers will rue in the years to come London Cycling Campaign Will Norman

After the Netherlands swore in its new government, the Prime Minister of fourteen years left office on a bicycle. With 35,000 kilometers of separated cycle tracks and 23.9 million bicycles, cycling is an integral part of everyday life in the Netherlands. 🎥 Mies

Today’s news is real progress. This approval allows people more options and greater opportunity to have more time.

7 October 2023 was the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. One year on from these horrific attacks we must unequivocally stand with the Jewish community and unite as a country. We will not falter in our pursuit of peace and on this day of pain and sorrow, we

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s statement on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

We once planned to end our days in a commune villa in Italy - Brideshead meets a Room with a View. Eating, drinking, reading, talking. Instead Ailana died in a windowless hospital room from cancer a year ago today. Much missed 💔

1986 - “Stoke Newington: Settlers and natives” by Neal Ascherson in the Observer. “The Stoke Newington settlers are teachers, social workers, middle-class media people starting a second marriage, the highly educated young who prefer trading to the dole.”

Like everyone at @Hackney_Cycling, I'm exhausted from the fight over this junction. But because there will be other junctions, and other fights, it's important to piece together what it tells us about Hackney's approach to cycling; an approach that's consistent, but troubling 🧵

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already achieved enough to go down in history as one of the great leaders - showing his true character and rising to the moment at a time of national existential crisis. He deserves credit and respect - and he’ll continue to get that from the UK 🇺🇦🇬🇧