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Image copyright @honeyidressedthepug Image caption Maitri Mody matching with her pug When you think about the people who match their clothes with their partners, do you perhaps think of them in matching anoraks at a computer games party or in matching husky jumpers at a tourist attraction? Do you think it’s uncool or even embarrassing? […]

Image copyright PA Media The Lib Dems would not support Labour’s plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party’s leader Jo Swinson has said. She told the BBC Radio 5’s Pienaar’s Politics the policy was a “distraction” and not “the way forward”. The Lib Dems and Labour have both

It’s seven o’clock in the morning at a major builders merchants in East London. By the roundabout outside, men gather, hunched over, smoking cigarettes. Each time a car or van passes, they straighten up and stick out their thumbs – hoping for a day’s work from the passing building trade. Sometimes they get lucky –

Image copyright Getty Images The central element in the Conservatives’ election pitch is a commitment to “get Brexit done”. Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement with the EU would indeed end the UK’s membership. But it would leave some very important Brexit-related challenges still to do, including the UK’s future trade relationship with the bloc, and with

Image copyright Getty Images Train ticket sales could be transformed under Labour plans for a central online booking portal. The party wants to replace what it sees as a confusing system of sales by private train operators – with around 55 million types of fare available. Instead, it is proposing a “one-stop shop” for fares

Image copyright NurPhoto / Getty Images Labour has announced plans to slash rail fares by 33% and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the election on 12 December. The party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 and build a central online booking portal

Image copyright AFP Bank of England governor Mark Carney has been appointed United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. Mr Carney will take up his new post once his term as governor ends on 31 January 2020. The announcement comes ahead of COP25, the UN’s annual climate change conference, which gets under way

Image copyright Kelly Hammer One morning earlier this week a small crowd queued patiently on Fifth Avenue. Once the guard eased open the doors, uniformed staff were on hand to usher in customers, some upstairs to the cafe, others to browse the store’s offerings, from diamond engagement rings to novelty items like the $180 dog

Image copyright PA Millions of commuters will have to pay an average of 2.7% more for rail tickets from 2 January. The rise, announced by industry body the Rail Delivery Group, is lower than the 3.1% increase at the start of 2019. Train companies say this is the third year in a row that average

Image copyright Ashai Kasei Image caption Professor Akira Yoshino (centre) won the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry When Professor Akira Yoshino was developing a new battery technology in his laboratory in the early 1980s, he didn’t think it would amount to much. “At the time, we thought it mainly would be used in 8mm video