OK - question for you all.
The cabin baggage rules from UK require you to have one bag x by y by z in size and chapesses have to put their hand bag into it to pass through the BAA security shambles. But are you allowed to carry that (stereotypically British) accessory - the umbrella - in addition to your suitably sized bag as well? You can wear/carry a coat, so perhaps such an item might be on the approved list??
I ask because I am charged by Mrs Hac to bring back a Chinese parasol from my next HK trip and I have little enthusiasm for my carefully selected purchase to be consigned to the pile of confiscated (and no doubt expensive) items as I pass through HK and subsequently UK security on my way home....