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Britain’s great tomato famine

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Britain is suffering a “tomato famine”, says Ed Conway. Supermarkets are also desperately short of lettuces and peppers. Why? The most immediate cause is bad weather in the south of Spain and the north of Africa, which is where we get those vegetables

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