Tinned food, loo roll and power banks: the Brits following advice to stockpile

Government campaign recommends three days’ worth of stores for emergencies, but some are ahead of the game

Dried foods, bottled water, medicine stocks and backup power banks: it could be the props cupboard on a disaster movie, but instead it is precisely what some UK residents are stockpiling amid official warnings about Russian “state-sponsored terrorism” and the impact of the climate crisis.

The government launched a campaign on Thursday advising people to set aside three days’ worth of stores to deal with a whole range of eventualities, and some are already well under way.