It wasn’t all bad

A Welsh woman is moving to Australia to marry her “Tinder match”, after the dating app accidentally paired her with a man 11,000 miles away. Jessica Maverick set the app to introduce her to men who lived within 100 miles of Cardiff. Steve Collins from Swansea looked perfect, until she realised he was in Swansea, New South Wales. Amused by the error, the couple, both 29, chatted on Skype, and eventually agreed to meet halfway in Dubai. “It was meant to be,” said Maverick.

A WWII veteran who was nearly killed in the fighting that followed D-day has become the world’s oldest skydiver, at the age of 101 years and 38 days. Verdun Hayes (he was named after the WWI battle, which took place in the year of his birth) broke the record on Sunday, when he jumped from a plane at 15,000ft, with ten members of his family, including his son, grandson and great-grandson, to raise money for the Royal British Legion. Asked, moments after landing, how he felt, the widower (pictured) – who made his first skydive on his 100th birthday – replied: “Over the moon.”

Smart traffic lights that promise to reduce congestion are to be used in a British city for the first time. Milton Keynes is investing £3m in the technology, which it aims to install next year. Normal traffic lights run in sequence, and are not automatically affected by the volume of traffic. The new system relies on cameras which scan the roads and can react to traffic levels by, say, instructing the lights to skip a green phase if there are no cars waiting. They can also be set to identify ambulances and buses, and give them priority at busy junctions.