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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Noah Vickers

Why are e-bikes causing fires in London?

E-bikes have hit the headlines once again after a fire believed to have been caused by one at a block of flats in east London left eleven people in hospital.

Increasingly popular with Londoners, e-bikes now fill the capital’s streets - and pavements - and have quickly become one of the city’s regular sights and sounds.

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