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Coronavirus and its impact on British tourism. And does the funeral industry need a shake up? (Image: a woman wearing a face mask passes a Public Health England sign at Terminal 4 of London Heathrow Airport. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Sajid Javid has shocked Westminster by quitting as chancellor in the middle of Boris Johnson's cabinet reshuffle. Mr Javid rejected the prime minister's order to fire his team of aides, saying "no self-respecting minister" could accept such a condition (Image: Sajid Javid Credit: Reuters)

A look at what we can expect from the new Chancellor, first set of RBS results under Alison Rose's leadership and London Fashion Week begins (Image: a combination picture of newly appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid in London)

The sale of petrol and diesel cars is going to be banned after 2035 - or perhaps sooner. Is the car industry ready? (Image: cars travel along the M1 motorway through wet and windy weather. Credit: Press Association)

Some believe that the essays of the award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates have helped foster a franker dialogue about race in America. Now he's branched into fiction with“The Water Dancer”, a novel which follows the life of a slave from childhood on a Virginia plantation. There are particularly moving passages in the book about the separation of families. He has been speaking to Martha Kearney about how he drew on contemporary accounts of slavery. (Image: Ta-Nehisi Coates Credit: Gabriella Demczuk)