Call for dangerous e-bike chargers to be banned after spate of fires

Recent deadly fire in Bristol tower block attributed to electric bike

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A London council has called on the government to ban the sale of dangerous e-bike chargers, amid a spate of fires linked to electric bikes.

Hammersmith & Fulham councillor Frances Umeh told the BBC the chargers "should never have been available for sale".

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.