Bird flu leads to egg limits

ASDA and Lidl are limiting the number of boxes of eggs customers can buy amid shortages caused by rising costs and bird flu.

Asda has a two-box limit and Lidl is restricting customers in some stores to three boxes.

The UK is facing its largest ever outbreak of bird flu, with a highly pathogenic variant circulating.

It is compounding shortages caused by producers cutting output or leaving the industry due to increased costs.