COFFEE roasting is an industry that has been growing rapidly in Scotland over the last decade, but recent years have presented a series of challenges that have left businesses struggling to make ends meet.

Anas Zein Al-Abdeen owns a chain of four Middle Eastern coffee houses around Birmingham. But, the 40-year-old says, while customers are plentiful, staff are another matter.

With inflation set to rise, alongside the cost of shopping and transport, the economic fallout will squeeze Britons’ budgets.

BREXIT – or at least the labour shortage being caused by it – is now affecting coffee aficionados who face delays in having their favourite brew delivered.

The owner of a popular coffee shop and deli in Sheffield claimed he has been forced to increase prices because of Brexit.

Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh wasn't having any of it.

But a “no deal” scenario for Brexit could mean the price of instant coffee that has been imported from the EU goes up in shops.

Coffee tariffs and orange tariffs and zero tariffs oh my! Chris in conversation with Twitter trade legend and man of mystery, Jim Cornelius, self-made walking encyclopedia of all things tariff-related, and scourge of so-called liberal leavers everywhere.

Kaffeo director Orla Smyth runs three independent Scandinavian coffee shops in Belfast.

This article, circulated widely on social media at the time of the referendum, claimed in error that EU tariffs starve African farmers. Since then it has been updated with an errata explaining its stated facts and conclusion are wrong. No tariffs are paid except on weapons. / NOTE: This article has now been removed from CAPX. We've linked to a copy from the WayBackMachine web archive.]