Dogs who stand on pitches alongside Big Issue vendors are to receive their own version of the sellers’ red tabard.

The social enterprise has partnered with Animal Friends Insurance to kit out the canine companions with specially designed dog tabards.

Big Issue said the tabards recognise the valuable contribution of dogs who endure long spells in wet and cold weather to provide companionship to their vendor owners.

They have already been distributed to a trial group of vendors across the UK, including Ian Duff, who sells the Big Issue in Bath with his dogs Trigger and Marlene.

He said: “It’s really important that those tabards stand out, they’re in the Christmas colour as well. My customers already love them and I’ve got new people coming up every day saying they’re fantastic.”

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