Tesco has removed buying limits on tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Britain s biggest supermarket introduced a cap of three items per customer on the vegetables in February.
The deep freeze set to hit parts of the UK from today could extend fruit and vegetable shortages as the Met Office issues weather warnings for snow and ice to last until Wednesday.
In a small corner of south-east England, vast glasshouses stand empty, the soaring cost of energy preventing their owner from using heat to grow cucumbers for the British market..