UK hunger fears as record-breaking numbers receive food parcels

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Published by Max Salsbury for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Featured, Health

A record-breaking 100,000 people have received emergency food parcels from UK foodbanks in the last six months.Now Foodbank charity The Trussell Trust fears rises in food and energy prices this winter could force more Britons into a crisis where they cannot afford to eat.The charity is anticipating feeding over 200,000 people in 2012-13 and has warned that this Christmas will be a desperate time for families on the breadline.The trust's foodbank network has fed nearly 110,000 people across the U...

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