Estate agent goes green with bicycles

An estate agent is considering a plan to ditch its cars for electric bicycles.

Winkworth, which has 56 offices and more than 225 agents in London, is testing Gocycles, which have rechargable electric motors.

Will Yule, director of Winkworth's Knightsbridge office, said the bikes were a "greener mobility alternative to operating a fleet of cars".

"On average, a Winkworth estate agent will make eight journeys by car each day and could spend many hours behind the wheel," he added.

The bikes cost about £1,200 and are designed and built in the UK by Karbon Kinetics Limited.