UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new Brexit border checks

Flower wholesaler Freddie Heathcote said checks on his trucks had prevented him getting flowers to customers. Photograph: Matt Alexander/PA

Of all the effects of Brexit, probably the least anticipated was that flower exporters and customs officials would have to learn Latin.

But that is one of the problems that confronted British businesses in the first week after the government introduced physical checks on some food and plants from the EU.