A plane with 150 skilled Romanian fruit and vegetable pickers onboard landed in London last night to save Britain's harvest.
The workers have been flown in to help to harvest farmers' crops because not enough Brits want to do the back-breaking job. All were tested for the coronavirus before they left and again when they arrived at London's Stansted Airport.
This particular group will be picking lettuces at a 7,000 hectare farm in East Anglia, with the harvest season due to start on Monday.
Firms are desperate for more staff but say they have to fly people in from abroad or the crops will rot. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) claims that travel restrictions and illness is set to leave a shortage of up to 80,000 agricultural
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