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Fighting fit

In an ever-widening area around a Northamptonshire reservoir, there has been “a dynamic flash in different coloured Primark sports gear” – a description that, location aside, could apply to any of the thousands of people who have rediscovered cycling during lockdown. In this case it is, in his own words, Chris Heaton-Harris, the government minister responsible for cycling. Like many others who’ve dusted off an ageing bike and rediscovered a love of cycling, Heaton-Harris has reaped its health benefits of regular riding – benefits he is keen to help others enjoy.

The MP for Daventry is a former greengrocer who took up

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