Britain needs 80,000 more volunteers to harvest its crops in the next few months despite a 10,000-strong land army already signing up. Some 10,000 volunteers across 500 UK farms will not be enough, Stephanie Maurel, chief executive of the charity Concordia, told The Guardian. Asparagus is set to be picked from next month but workers … Read more
Young are urged to shop in-store and make food last longer so elderly can use supermarkets’ overloaded online delivery service as Ocado chairman tells stockpilers ‘show restraint, nobody will starve’ amid coronavirus lockdown Tesco CEO Dave Lewis has written to customers about shopping during the crisis He has urged young and healthy people to shop … Read more
The UK should be braced for food rationing because relying on the public to exercise shopping restraint simply ‘won’t work’, according to an academic expert. Bryce Evans, associate professor of history and politics at Liverpool Hope University, said we’re not at crisis point yet, and urged people not to panic buy. But he’s also calling … Read more
An NHS nurse stranded in Cambodia has pleaded with Boris Johnson to bring her and her husband home to the UK. Frontline healthcare worker Cheryl Baxter issued a heartbreaking video message saying they are ‘near meltdown’ and begged the Prime Minister for help so she could go back to work. Breaking down into tears, she … Read more
Caitlyn Jenner pops out to pick up food to go and wine in Malibu wearing black tracksuit amid coronavirus pandemic By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 06:31 GMT, 25 March 2020 | Updated: 06:31 GMT, 25 March 2020 She traveled back to her California home from a trip to the UK a couple of weeks … Read more
All major fast food restaurants in the UK will have closed their doors by tomorrow amid the coronavirus crisis. There were huge queues for McDonald’s across the country last night with customers desperate for one last Big Mac before all restaurants shut up shop at 7pm. Despite vowing to keep kitchens open for Drive-Thrus and … Read more
Celebrity chef and television host Pete Evans has revealed his concern for shoppers amid the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking on his Evolve podcast last week, the 47-year-old said he was shocked by the number of people filling up their trolleys with ‘crap food’ at a local supermarket. ‘I was at the supermarket the other day picking … Read more
The 1.5million ‘extremely vulnerable’ people across the country will offered food, medicine and other deliveries as the nation tries to cope with the coronavirus outbreak. At the daily press conference Boris Johnson confirmed the NHS is to begin sending out letters to the people most at risk of the disease urging them to remain at … Read more
The 1.5million ‘extremely vulnerable’ people across the country will offered food, medicine and other deliveries as the nation tries to cope with the coronavirus outbreak. At the daily press conference Boris Johnson confirmed the NHS is to begin sending out letters to the people most at risk of the disease urging them to remain at … Read more
Army called in to help organise food deliveries to homes as up to 1.5MILLION people at highest risk to coronavirus are sent letters telling them to stay in their homes for THREE MONTHS Minister Robert Jenrick said that GPs writing to hundreds of thousands of people Those with pre-existing health problems told not to go … Read more