Free fruit for children

TESCO is to offer free fruit to children while their parents shop in more than 800 of its stores after a successful trial.

The UK’s biggest supermarket is setting up stands in stores across the UK offering fruit such as apples, citrus and bananas for parents to give to their kids.

A number of stores ran a well-received trial after a Tesco staff member in Lincolnshire suggested giving fruit to parents for their children to eat during shopping trips as an alternative to sweets.