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Many thanks to Craddys for organising last night's 'Aldi Olympics'. Great fun. And well done to Rob and Richard for winning the egg throwing competition (yep!) and for securing Gold for Entran in the overall team event.

From this week, a startup from Singapore is becoming the first 'dockless' bike sharing company to launch its cycles in London. In total 400 oBikes have been placed in Tower Hamlets.

Like other bike-sharing schemes, the system allows riders to find, rent, and pay for bikes through a smartphone app. Each 30-minute ride costs 50p plus a refundable deposit of £49, and the bike is unlocked by scanning a QR code printed on its frame

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As keen triathletes (well, we did one in 2011 - scroll way down the news items!) we were pleased to see the Brownlee brothers achieve first and second in the ITU World Triathlon Series in their home town of Leeds yesterday, proudly sponsored by Aldi.

The Court of Appeal has agreed with a High Court judgement* that S106 of the T&C Planning Act 1990 cannot be used to preclude residents of new developments from applying for parking permits. They ruled that this was not a planning obligation under the Act, as Section 106 is concerned with “the land” in which a person has a legal interest.

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We were delighted to hear that Midford Road Nursery received planning permission for their new Nursery School at Oldfield Park in Bath yesterday. The Travel Plan proved to be quite complex but permission was granted with no S106 Agreement or obligations and very few conditions which will hopefully enable the Nursery to be open in September as planned.

Aldi has secured planning permission this week for three new stores in just two days! The sites are in Moreton-in-Marsh, Highbridge and Rodbourne Road, Swindon.