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Paul Vicary has today resigned from Tandem Group plc's board. MV's Stephen Grant is to join the board.

The London Development Agency, in conjunction with Sport England and Lee Valley Regional Park Authority has supplied the Eastway Users Group with an undertaking that the present Eastway facility will continue largely as it is now in the event of an unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Olympics. This is despite huge development pressures around the area of Stratford International Channel Rail Link Terminal.

Derek Twigg MP also gets rail so his eye may not always be on cycling and walking. Karen Buck MP has a rather contradictory brief: as well being in charge of gas-guzzling aviation, she's the government's Green Minister. So, the Buck may stop here. At cycling that is.

As a way of promoting the Dudley International track meet on 13-14th August, race promoter Halesowen CC is to send a quiz to bike media, challenging cyclists to find answers to a set of bike-themed questions. The club is seeking quiz prizes from bike trade. The questions range from where the Elswick Hopper was built through to posers that will have even the brainiest cyclists typing keywords into Google...

Columbia Sportswear Company - promoted worldwide by the image of former company president and daughter of the founders, Gert Boyle, the grey-haired, shoulder-tattoo sporting über mom - has launched a range of bikes and accessories.