Scottish fruit farmers recruit thousands of locals to save harvest

Students and laid-off bar and restaurant workers given jobs as pickers after urgent appeal

Scottish fruit farmers have solved a recruitment crisis that could have resulted in this year's harvest of strawberries, blueberries and raspberries being destroyed.

Several thousand people, including students and restaurant and bar workers laid off because of the coronavirus outbreak, have taken low-paid fruit-picking jobs in Tayside and Fife normally done by seasonal workers from Bulgaria and Romania.