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Media coverage for Walk to School Week

New Government report about the state of school travel

On 22 March 2009, the Transport Select Committee launched their report into school travel in the UK (report HC 351). Hear Tony Armstrong discuss some of the issues raised by the report on Jeremy Vine's BBC2 radio show.

BBC Radio 2

Walk to School Month, Oct 2008

We launched new research which shows the UK is breeding a generation of couch potato parents who don't teach their kids how to be active. Look and listen to some of the coverage here:

MSN Environment

Sky News Radio

BBC Radio Cornwall

BBC Radio Leeds

BBC Radio Shropshire

Pirate Radio FM

Walk to School Week, May 2008

We marked the start of Walk to School Week with the launch of our report Backseat Children. We were featured on BBC Breakfast, Five Live and at least 25 local radio stations. Have a look at other articles here:

Daily Mail
Scotland on Sunday
The Times
BBC Gloucestershire
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Yorkshire Evening Post
Foxfm (Oxfordshire)
Oxford Mail
Cambridge News
Warrington Guardian
The Northern Echo
Bicester Advertiser
East Anglian Daily Times
Swindon Advertiser
Derry Journal
Halesowen News
Solihull Times
Daily Post (Wales)
The News (Portsmouth)
The Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent)

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