While the home has now had new deliveries of full protective equipment, they are running low on uniforms after the supply company halted production.

Any excess electricity can be exported to the grid and sold to the local electricity supply company.

Worked as public relations chief for catering supply company after retiring.

Companies know only too well that they cannot simply cut supply to a delinquent customer in the way that, say, a building supply company could withhold bricks or cement.

The group said yesterday that it had 'identified a series of doubtful transactions involving a supply company which evidence suggests account for a substantial proportion of this shortfall'.