Sun cream and ice cream sales soar as sunny weather continues

Supermarkets must be like the cats who have got the double cream as sun-sweltered revellers are not only soothing their skin with the factor 30 but also their hungry bellies with a cold cone.

Tesco yesterday revealed that sales of sun cream have risen by 305% this week while ice-cream sales have shot up by 54%.

The latter statistic is backed up by dessert maker HB which said it expected to sell an ice-cream every two seconds if the figures from last year’s hot summer were anything to go by.