BBCNEWS Breakfast June 4, 2024 06:28:00
I'm alice salfield. the food bank charity the trussell trust says there's been a dramatic increase in demand in the past six months. figures show it provided more than 280,000 emergency food parcels to londoners in the past year — up by almost 40% compared to the year before the pandemic. the trust says it's seen parents skipping meals and going without heating to be able to afford the internet so their children can do their homework. it is one of the worst roller—coaster disasters in history — when the big dipper at battersea park crashed in 1972, killing five children. now, 50 years on...