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If you have left your bike at Bristol Temple Meads for a while - and keep putting off going to pick it up - you have just 10 days to get it back or you could lose it for good.

Any bikes abandoned at the train station are set to be removed as part of a mass bike cull next week.

The cull is aimed at tackling the issue of people using the interior bike racks on the station platform as long term storage for their cycle with the area becoming increasingly overcrowded.

The racks are a relative safe zone for bikes as they are on the other side of the ticket barriers and covered by CCTV cameras.

To execute the removal, every bike on the racks has been tagged. If a tag is still on a bike on July 24 the bike will be deemed abandoned and removed.

It is up to the owner to remove the tag by that date.

Signs have been erected on the station platform warning bike owners of the impending fate of any bikes that are left with a tag.

They read: “To create space for other cyclists all cycles have been tagged. Any cycle still tagged on 24 July 2017 will be deemed abandoned and removed.”

Culled bikes will be held in storage for 28 days and if their owners fail to claim them within that time they will be donated to Bristol-based charities.

The removal will be carried out by Network Rail in conjunction with Great Western Railway (GWR) and the British Transport Police.

The sign adds: “Please note these cycle racks are not intended for long term storage of cycles. Please do not abuse this facility as this prevents others benefitting.”