Jeremy Corbyn visits volunteers from the Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation (AWT) and Islington Cycling Club who handed bikes to refugee families

TWENTY bikes were handed over to refugee families as part of a project that makes sure every child has a chance to cycle.

Volunteers from the Alexandra Wylie Tower Foundation and Islington Cycling Club came together for a session at the Archway Campus to repair the worn-down two-wheelers and give them a new lease of life.

Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, who visited the volunteers, recalled getting his very first bike, a Triumph Palm Beach, and said the project helped children gain “confidence, freedom, happiness, and create memories that stay with them for life”.

He said he still owns his now 65-year-old bike. “I could never part with it because of the memories attached to it,” Mr Corbyn added. “I also remember exactly the street where I learned to ride, and it still looks the same today.”