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Coffee Shots: Puppy love for Yvette Cooper and Will Straw

Could this photo beat Nick Clegg’s hedgehog photo call to be the strangest animal election campaign snap?

Here Yvette Cooper and Labour’s candidate for Rossendale and Darwen Will Straw are posing on a pavement with a slightly flattened-looking dog under their hands. Handily, in the background, a girl carries a spare dog past, just in case the first one does manage to escape.

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