Fourteen Tesco stores across the UK - closed on police advice after a series of security threats - should reopen for normal Sunday trading.

The UK’s number one supermarket will have lost millions of pounds in sales when the 14 stores were forced to shut on Saturday afternoon.

A criminal investigation is underway, but police do not believe there is a link to extremism, and one line of inquiry is of a possible financial motive behind the threats.

Tesco stores were closed in Port Talbot, south Wales, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and Market Harborough and Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. Other branches shut down were in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk; Hucknall, Notts; Hereford and Ledbury, both in Herefordshire; and Barnes, south west London.

Some Scottish branches of the supermarket were also closed in East Renfrewshire and Fife. And other stores were closed in regions covered by the Lancashire and Humberside police forces.

A Tesco spokeswoman said: "Tesco is working with the police following a series of incidents. As always, customer welfare is our priority."

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