There will 96 punnets of Elsanta each for 10 stores in Suffolk and Essex and 64 punnets each for five stores in Hampshire.

With five per cent more sunshine than usual during March this year and a good start to April, light levels and warmth have helped bring the fruit on earlier than expected.

Tesco claims a 39 per cent share of the total English strawberry crop, some 7,000 tonnes.

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