Farm hit by potato rustlers

UK - The Jersey Royal Company, which supplies all the leading supermarkets including Tesco, Asda and Waitrose with potatoes, has been forced to hire security guards to stop criminals digging up the tubers in the middle of the night. Barrie Hamel, a director at the company, said: “In previous years we’ve always had one or two people nicking potatoes for their own use. But in the last two weeks we’ve had eight or nine attacks.---...More