rationing

This summer, the matcha dealer called to say that after a decade of importing from Japan, she had been forced to start rationing supply.

Energy supplies would last longer if electricity rationing is imposed, a step that would ripple through Taiwanese manufacturing, including the semiconductor industry, whose shutdown would have a global impact.

There is evidence of poor nutrition, poor hygiene and rationing of period products and toilet paper at Clearsprings' sites, charities have told us.

"The way the NHS is rationing these drugs has consequences beyond just obesity."

The trade body said that was about half of that produced in 1990 and similar to production levels seen when rationing was still in place following the World War Two.