The incident occurred about 04:30 local time (12:30 GMT) at the junction of Flamingo and Las Vegas boulevards, police Sgt John Sheahan said.

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At the inquest into Mr Knight's death, the deputy coroner did not make specific comments about the junction, but did say he would write to the local authorities about it.

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Local campaigners, cyclists and bloggers have highlighted the safety issues of the junction outside Kings Cross station where a cyclist died on 3 October.

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Broughton, which Mr Hollobone described as "middle England at its best", wants to draw up a local plan, but is waiting for a decision on whether a new junction will be built off the nearby A14.

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Chairman of Gloucestershire Local Enterprise Partnership's Logistics Sector Group, Mark Ryan said the benefits that improving the junction would bring to the county as a whole is "far in excess" of the cost.

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Ironically, Toorale's sale could mean new life for the local Gurnu-Barkindji aboriginal people, whose forbears were pushed out of their traditional lands around the junction of the Darling and Warrego rivers, where Toorale lies.

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