Peer wants number plates for cyclists after attack

Lord Winston was kicked repeatedly by a woman who had been cycling on the pavement

Cyclists in London
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Lord Winston, the fertility expert and peer, has said cyclists should be forced to carry number plates after he was attacked by a woman he had challenged for speeding past him on the pavement.

The 78-year-old member of the House of Lords said that the woman repeatedly kicked him after he spoke to her in Bloomsbury, central London, on Wednesday.

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