Tesco has said more than 1,800 bakery jobs are at risk.

The company said that announcement comes as some stores are doing less baking from scratch, and because of the simplified routines these changes will bring, it will "unfortunately need fewer colleagues to work in these areas".

As a result, there are 1,816 bakery colleagues being put at risk of redundancy, Tesco said.

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It added that its priority will be "to support those colleagues impacted, including finding an alternative role from the many thousands of vacancies we will have available across our store networks between now and May, for those who wish to stay with us".

Jason Tarry, UK and Ireland chief executive, said: "We need to adapt to changing customer demand and tastes for bakery products so that we continue to offer customers a market-leading bakery range in store.

"We know this will be very difficult for colleagues who are impacted, and our priority is to support them through this process.

"We hope that many will choose to stay with us in alternative roles.”

Tesco also completed its exit from China after selling its stake in a joint venture in the country as part of a reorganisation of overseas business.

The retailer said it has sold its 20% stake in the Gain Land joint venture to a unit of its state-run partner China Resources Holdings (CRH), raising £275 million.

Tesco struggled to crack the Chinese market, ultimately combining its 131 stores in the country with partner CRH's almost 3,000 sites in 2014.

Brussels has demanded the UK continues to allow European Union fishing fleets access to British waters to strike a post-Brexit free trade agreement.

European ministers agreed to red lines for the negotiations in a meeting of the General Affairs Council on Tuesday, but the mandate has set the EU on a collision course with the UK Government.

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The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier told a press conference after the talks that fishing rights must be included in the deal or there "won't be any agreement at all".

He insisted there must be "robust, level playing field safeguards" to avoid "unfair competitive advantages" in social, environmental, tax and state aid matters.

Google has apologised to Nest owners after an outage knocked some security cameras offline overnight.

People across the world began tweeting about the issue on Monday at about 8pm and devices were unable to record video and show live streams well into Tuesday.

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Nest Cam, Nest Cam IQ Indoor, Nest Cam IQ Outdoor, Nest Hello Doorbell and the Nest Hub Max smart display were reportedly affected.

Rishi Chandra, Google's vice president for Nest, said the problem happened because of "a scheduled storage server software update that didn't go as intended".

"You depend on Nest cameras to keep an eye on your home and the people in it, so of course it's frustrating when you can't," he said. "For that, please accept my apology."

The outage means affected devices will not have collected any video history.

A fix was later rolled out, though the issue was not declared as fully resolved on Nest's Status page until about 2pm on Tuesday.