‘Shops will close’: soaring cost of potatoes batters British chippies

The once humble, low-cost staple more than doubles in price, putting many fish and chip shops at risk

Whether it's fried, baked or mashed, potatoes have traditionally been a low-cost staple food in the UK - but not any more.

A surge in costs is clobbering high street chippies, while in the supermarket, oven chips and the once humble baking potato are casualties of soaring grocery prices.