Cycle hire firms urged to help clear dumped bikes from canals

Trust says it is recovering 100 bikes a year - docked, dockless, even electric - in London alone

Hundreds of dockless bikes are being dumped in canals and rivers and most operators should do more help clean up the mess, the body responsible for the UK's waterways has complained.

The Canal & River Trust said it was growing increasingly frustrated by the number of hire bikes abandoned in and beside its 2,000-mile network. It said more than 100 hire bikes a year were being thrown into canals in London alone.