Fields of flowers are being left to rot in Cornwall because not enough pickers are available to harvest the crop following Brexit. The world’s largest daffodil grower, Varfell Farms in Penzance, Cornwall, produces 500 million stems a year and needs 700 workers to pick them. The crops are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and … Read more
Millions of us check our phone as many as 150 times a day, and this dependency is deepening. Vodafone reports that during lockdown, customers used a third more mobile data – they also made 20 per cent more calls. But there is a disconnect between our reliance on the telecoms companies that supply us with … Read more
Female stock pickers have done better than men during investment industry’s pandemic rollercoaster ride By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:15 BST, 1 September 2020 | Updated: 22:41 BST, 1 September 2020 Big name: Dame Helena Morrissey made her name in fund management Female fund managers have outperformed their male colleagues so far … Read more
Litter pickers battle scourge of plastic toys dumped on beaches as they plead with Britons to ‘leave only footprints’ Volunteers say the cheap toys are being seen as one-use items to be left behind Team collect the items with other litter to prevent them from entering the ocean Buckets, spades and other toys made of … Read more
A British farmer has revealed that the majority of applicants who volunteered to pick fruit and veg on his land have dropped out because of the demanding physical labour. Ed Grey, who runs Watts Farm in Kent, had more than 300 furloughed workers to help harvest crops growing on his land as part of the Pick … Read more
Desperate vineyard owners have flown Romanian fruit pickers in to Italy by private jet in a bid to save their grape harvests. One of the fruit pickers who was flown to the northern Italian town of Termeno said it was the first time they had been on a plane. Italy’s vines have not stopped growing during … Read more
Sir Richard Henriques, one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers, played a leading role in some of the most notorious trials of recent years. In extracts from his new book in the Mail, Sir Richard has given a gripping account of his role in the trial of Dr Harold Shipman, his forensic review of Operation Midland … Read more
A farming boss says his company had spent £40,000 to fly 150 experienced Romanian farm workers to the UK to teach unskilled British fruit and vegetable pickers how to harvest. Anthony Gardiner, boss at G’s Growers, says the situation was getting desperate because their regular land army of foreign workers are locked down in their … Read more
The first plane carrying 150 ‘critically important’ Romanian fruit and vegetable pickers landed at Stansted this afternoon. The young Romanians, a mix of men and women and all wearing face masks, filed out of the near empty airport in groups of five to comply with social distancing. They were then transported by buses to a … Read more
Charter plane full of Romanian fruit pickers will land at Stansted tomorrow to fill farm labourer vacancies – despite coronavirus causing surge in UK unemployment Boeing 737 charter plane is arriving tomorrow with about 180 Romanian workers It is believed that not enough British workers have applied for farming jobs The charter plane is the … Read more