Wednesday 10th September will see London ring out to the sound of the bicycle bell on the first annual Ding Day – A celebration for the cycling community in London.

On this day London will become a joyful and happier city for cyclists, streets will ring to the sound of the bicycle bell. With every cyclist welcome and openly encouraged to participate, all that’s needed is a bike and a bell. There is no main event on the day, it runs all day whenever you are in the saddle on Ding Day.

The concept is simple:
On Wednesday 10th September whenever you see another cyclist you give a little ‘ding ding’ on your bell, and they will return your greeting with another ‘ding ding’.

The idea behind Ding Day:
To create a fun experience for cyclists and locals in and around London, with the hope of creating more of a sense of community amongst fellow cyclists, including commuters, parents, children, basically any cyclist young or old. It’s free and open to everyone.

It is a celebration of cycling as one of the most environmentally friendly, healthy and almost certainly quickest way of getting aroud our great city.

For all the latest please visit the site www.dingday.org
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Forget the question what is nomar, what is Blackle? - well as the name kind of suggests it is a black version of your favourite search engine Google. I would imagine your next question is why bother, well the reason is to make your web searching more environmentally friendly.

By making the background of Google black not white it is suggested it could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year as it takes more energy to render a white screen than a black screen.

So for you eco-warriors out there, once you have finished your recycling and digging tunnels why not use blackle instead of google (it still uses google search just in a more economic way)

Could this be one of the greatest speeches of our time?. Stephen Fry talks with such enthusiasm and gusto about the BBC - its past and its possible future. This is something that every British person, scrap that, every person should listen to and hopefully be inspired by.