Food Costs to Soar as Big Freeze Deepens

‘Britons have been warned to brace
themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures
leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to
distribute fresh produce.

Gordon Brown, who will chair a meeting
of the Cobra emergency committee early this week to discuss the freeze,
was today forced to reassure the country that it would not run out of
gas or grit for its roads during the coldest weather in 30 years.’

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