This week s question: The recent blockage of the Suez Canal has worsened the U.K. s already desperate shortage of garden gnomes. Countless gnomes are stuck in containers trying to come over here, said Iain Wylie of the British Garden Centre Association. In seven words or fewer, please come up with a headline for a British tabloid story about the gnome crisis.
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Monday, April 19, 2021
The UK is facing many frightening problems; a nationwide shortage of garden gnomes being one of the issues lower down on the list. Suez Canal container ship the Ever Given which carries cargo between Asia and Europe became blocked last month - and one of the items of cargo that is carried on the super-sized vessel is the garden gnome.
Garden centres are since running out of the favourite outdoor ornament since the blockage and lockdown.
Garden Centre Association chief executive, Iain Wylie, told the BBC: “With goods arriving from abroad, garden centres were affected by the ship getting stuck in the canal as much as any other industry.