UK consumers hopeful of having traditional turkey roasts this Christmas have been warned of a 'big, big shortage' of free range birds - with half already dead due to the ongoing rise in avian flu.
Bosses in the industry revealed that in the region of 600,000 of the some 1.2million free range Christmas turkeys set to be sold have already either died or been culled due to the rapidly spreading disease.
It is also said that around one million of the 8.5 to 9million festive birds in total have suffered the same fate.
