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Plans for a memorial to four cyclists who lost their lives in a North Wales crash have been given a boost by relatives of the dead.

Former Great British international cyclist Maurice Broadbent, 61, was killed along with fellow Rhyl Cycling Club members Thomas Harland, 14, Dave Horrocks, 55, and Wayne Wilkes, 42, after a car skidded into them in icy conditions on the A547 near St George in January 2006.

Boris Johnson and Transport for London have announced plans for 12 outer London boroughs to become outposts for cycling.

The 12 - Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Haringey, Havering, Hillingdon, Kingston, Merton and Redbridge - will become Biking Boroughs, receiving extra support and expertise from Transport for London (TfL) in a bid to encourage greater numbers of cyclists in their areas.

The boroughs will each receive £25,000 from TfL to fund a local study examining how cycle journeys can be increased.

road.cc's  Rider of the Year,  Mark Cavendish has condemned the return to cycling of drug cheat Riccardo Ricco, calling him 'a parasite'.

Cavendish was speaking after the news that Ricco plans to join a small Italian team, Ceramica Flaminia, when his ban ends on March 10. Originally handed down a two-year suspension after his ejection from the Tour de France in 2008, Ricco's ban - after testing positive for CERA, the third-generation form of the human growth hormone EPO - was reduced by four months on appeal on the grounds of his cooperation.