Supermarket pasta shelves left bare as shoppers struggle to find Italian staple

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Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterPasta appears to be in short supply at a number of supermarkets across the UK - and climate change has been blamed for the stock shortages.

The price of wheat shot up by around 90% during the summer after extremely dry weather hit farms in Canada, the Mirror reports.

Farms that have been impacted by the drought produce much of the durum wheat which is ground into semolina for the likes of spaghetti, macaroni and penne in the UK.

And this is having an impact on the supermarket shelves, with shoppers unable to pick up the food item in a number of UK stores.The problems with the supply of pasta have also been made worse due to the ongoing shortage of HGV