A cheese-making firm is slashing prices after struggling to sell its stock during lockdown, while farmers are warning that their pigs are getting 'too fat' to be sold to supermarkets.
The Cornish Cheese Company faces throwing away up to two tonnes of blue cheese which it has been unable to sell during the Covid shutdown.
The company sells 80 per cent of its product to the hospitality sector, which has been crippled by government curbs on movement and has been closed since early January.
But with a three-week window before the cheese goes off, the company is now slashing prices in a bid to entice online customers into buying its products direct. Cheese lovers can buy 1kg of blue cheese for £16 down from £24, 700g for £12 down from £18, and 2kg of whole blue cheese for £27 down from £35.