There have been fresh calls to make London's roads safer for cyclists after two fatal accidents in 24 hours.
The latest death involved a man who was hit by a double-decker bus at around 11.30pm on Wednesday.
It happened at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Road in Aldgate, east London.
The man was treated at the roadside by paramedics but died a few hours later in hospital.
No one has been arrested and efforts are being made trace the cyclist's next of kin.
The accident came hours after a woman in her mid-20s was killed in the morning rush-hour.
Police were called to the Bow roundabout in east London shortly before 9am following reports a lorry had collided with a cyclist.
The start of a cycle ride in London calling for safer streets The cyclist, who had been travelling west along the A11, was apparently hit when she tried to turn south towards the Blackwall Tunnel.
Police said the male driver of the lorry stopped at the scene and there were no arrests.
The two deaths brought the number of cycling fatalities in the capital to five in the last nine days.
A male cyclist who was badly hurt in a collision with a lorry on Millbank in central London on Wednesday morning remains in a critical condition, Scotland Yard said.
London Assembly Green Party member Darren Johnson says more needs to be done to make London safer for cycling.
"In the past decade, the number of cyclists in the capital has almost trebled," he said.
"It is absolutely vital that we continue to invest huge sums of money into improving cycling infrastructure and making it as safe as possible."
Speaking on LBC Radio, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the issue "needs to be taken very seriously", although he was not convinced extra regulation was the answer.
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