These days my pack is filled with a small container of olive oil, dried herbs, salt and pepper and fresh fruit rather than packets of dehydrated beans and rice or bags of quick-cooking oatmeal flavored with desiccated strawberries.

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Another container ship is travelling from Spain, laden with a further 40, 000 tonnes of salt, and a third is also heading to the UK with salt from Germany.

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