Lidl will sell smaller fruit and vegetables grown by British farmers to support them after drought conditions hampered crops.
The discount supermarket chain says it has written to British suppliers in the wake of the driest British summer for half a century and England's driest July for almost 90 years to ask how they can help. Lidl says that, where possible, it will stock products hit by the drought but retain the "same great British quality".
The "stunted" fruit and vegetables may be a different size to what shoppers are used to but the supermarket promises the quality will be fine. Lidl says the move is vital to support British farmers and encouraged its rivals to follow suit.
