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Research looked at three London boroughs to value overall health benefits of active travel over 20 years at up to £4,800 per headPolicies to help people walk and cycle such as low-traffic neighbourhoods can create public health benefits as much as 100 times greater than the cost of the schemes, a long-term study of active travel measures has concluded.The research, based on six years...

Study warns that lack of reporting may mask the dangers of still-mostly-illegal scooters on roads and pavementsThe majority of e-scooter accidents that involve someone needing hospital treatment are not being recorded in official road accident figures, a new study reveals, sparking fears that their dangers have been underplayed.The analysis found that just 9% of injuries involving e-scooters and recorded by 20 emergency departments over...