Price of an onion going up 483%

ONION prices have soared by an eye-watering 483%

- WILL STONE

And the whopping rise in wholesale prices across Europe will feed through to higher costs for shoppers here.

A shortage of a million tons of onions in the EU has been caused by "robust" demand and poor harvests hit by bad weather.

David Norton, of UK grower Nationwide Produce, warned supermarket prices are set to keep rising. He said: "I would imagine that they would probably go up a little bit.