The status of the river was last year

But Ofcom faces a number of hurdles, including the fact that those running this forum are anonymous and that it is hosted in the US.BBC News has revealed how more than 50 UK suicides have been connected to the forum.

In October 2023, the BBC confronted an American man, Lamarcus Small, who is believed to have set the site up in 2018. And in March last year,The BBC also joined the forum using a false identity, compiling a list of the dead and exposing a partner section where members could find someone to die with.Catherine Adenekan and daughter-in-law Melanie Saville have been campaigning to have the site shut down since Catherine's son, Joe, took his own life in April 2020.

He was a member of the forum for less than a week, but the 23-year-old learned how to buy and use a toxic chemical.He left a note for his mother which read: "Please do your best in closing that website for anyone else."

Together they infiltrated the site, documented the numbers of deaths associated with it and identified people selling the chemical.

They have been lobbying ministers, their local MP and talking to the media in an effort to get the forum closed down. They say it has been an exhausting five years."When potholes are very close to the edge of the road it makes it difficult to cycle there, so you have to cycle more into the middle of the road and that irritates the drivers."

The issue has also been flagged by Mr Stewart, who said he had noticed an increase in damage caused by potholes, adding: "In the bike shop we get a lot of cyclists coming in with damaged wheels and punctures where they've hit potholes."It's a real problem."

Miguel Gentil Fernandez, an avid cyclist from Wollaton, is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, specialising in urban planning."All along Derby Road, it's very very dangerous for cyclists," he noted.