Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to the mini series.

We're now in the second half of the mini series of the shortlistees for this year's Paul Foot Award.

Let's find out with no further mucking about who today's shortlistee is.

My name's Jim Watson and I'm the editor of London Centric, a new London news publication.

And what is the Paul Foot Award shortlisted story that you've written this year?

The story is all about line bikes, which if you live in London or another major city in the UK,

you might know as those ubiquitous green rent-by-the-minute e-bikes that are everywhere. And there's

been a lot of moans about the fact that they can block pavements and things like that. But the

thing that I've really focused on is the safety element and the sort of power of a company that

just went, okay, we're going to just flood a market with a load of devices that are basically

unregulated and people will rent them and

not know whether a bit is going to fall off the bike, whether when they crash at high speed,

the design is even suitable for falling on top of them and perhaps injuring them. And it all started

because one person said, I've broken a leg.

And then a second reader got in touch to say, it's also broken my leg.

And then by the time a third and a fourth got in touch, it's like, there's a story here.

And so really it's as much about how I'm trying to do proper local journalism where you just listen to what the public are telling you.

And you go and find out why something's happening

on the ground in the city that they live in. So this is reader generated. This is your readers of

London centric getting in touch. This is readers of London centric getting in touch. And at first,

I, you know, I was a bit suspicious. I wasn't sure. I used the things. And I wanted to know why this was. And I started phoning up consultants who work in

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