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Popular varieties - like ginger nuts and bourbons - appeared to have been crushed in the incident.

On her website, she says she loves making audio, but it can be lonely: “I create this stuff in slippers and isolation, mainlining cups of tea and ginger nuts.”

Every morning he went out in a suit and tie with a packet of ginger nut biscuits to sit in the Sefton Park palm house writing.

If you can, use the thick crumbly type of ginger biscuits rather than snappy old ginger nuts.

Sainsbury's, which put signs up in its stores to apologise for supply shortages, has welcomed the good ginger nut news.