Bottled water and tinned food sales surge after UK government issues emergency stockpile advice

• Sales of tinned food, bottled water, wind-up radios and torches have surged after the government's Be Ready campaign advised households to keep 72 hours of emergency supplies. • Maplin said torch sales almost quadrupled and power bank and radio sales doubled; one wind-up radio sold out. • Iceland reported tinned product sales up 40% over the weekend alongside strong bottled water sales. • Supermarkets say supplies of long-life products remain healthy and warned against reading too much into social media pictures of empty shelves.