Record numbers receiving emergency food

Rev Sharon Jones and Margaret Wight with food collected for the Rochdale Foodbank

A record number of people received emergency food from UK food banks in the last six months, a charity says.

The Trussell Trust said its food bank network, which includes the new Rochdale Foodbank, had fed almost 110,000 people since April, compared with a total of 128,697 in the whole of 2011-12.

Its food banks provide at least three days' worth of nutritionally-balanced food for local people in crisis.

The charity expects to feed more than 200,000 people in 2012-13 as food and fuel bills are set to rise this winter.

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