Some of the 27,000 cyclists who gathered on Clapham Common to take part in the 18th British Heart Foundation London to Brighton Bike Ride

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Some of the 27,000 cyclists who gathered on Clapham Common to take part in the 18th British Heart Foundation London to Brighton Bike Ride yesterday, hoping to top last year's sum of pounds 910,000 raised for heart research. The 58-mile event was later marred by the death of a rider who suffered a stroke near Ditchling Beacon, East Sussex