More towns and cities in England are to get a chance to bid for part of a 140 million pound investment in cycling. Among the proposals is an expansion of the Cycling Demonstration Towns project and the creation of the first demonstration city.
The package includes 110 million pounds of new money on top of the ten million already allocated to cycling promotion in each of the next three years. 

A local government think tank is calling on councils to sign up to its voluntary carbon trading scheme as a way of showing they can set the pace in tackling the effects of climate change. The call from the Local Government Information Unit follows the last of a series of roundtable meetings it has organised about developing a trading scheme. 

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