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Consumers have been urged to seek out British potatoes on supermarket shelves to help East Anglia’s growers shift the huge surplus generated by the loss of lockdown demand from chip shops and restaurants. The coronavirus pandemic left thousands of tonnes of potatoes stranded in stores as the food service sector closed down. Some have been […]

When potato farmer Tim Briscoe found a large quantity of his spuds had been stolen, he decided to pen a poignant poem to the pilferer – rather than subject them to a roasting. Mr Briscoe, of the Buxton Potato Company, posted the ode on his company’s Facebook Page in the hope it might shame the […]