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And we're not immune in Dawlish - see this from Dawlish Gazette in October: http://www.dawlishnewspapers.co.uk/news.cfm?id=35314&headline=Food%20bank%20helps%20100%20families

3 Dec 2013

@jools88 - yes you and I are lucky.  Our grandparents have worked, our parents have worked, we have worked but have some plain old-fashioned sympathy for those who are less lucky and caught in the poverty trap for whatever reason.  Check this out: UK Foodbanks 13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK. Every day people in the UK go hungry for reasons ranging from ...

3 Dec 2013

So perhaps you'd like to change that?  Sign the petition.

3 Dec 2013

If you'd like to see a parliamentary debate on why people are going hungry in this country when so much food is wasted each year by households and supermarkets then please join this campaign: http://chn.ge/1avsBiw

Just to repeat a post from another thread: University College London recently published a report on the contribution of immigrants to this country since 2000.  In summary: "Migrants coming to the UK since the year 2000 have been less likely to receive benefits or use social housing than people already living in the country, according to a study that argues the new arrivals have made a net ...

Philippenes Donation
17 Nov 2013

@Oniscus University College London recently published a report on the contribution of immigrants to this country since 2000.  In summary: "Migrants coming to the UK since the year 2000 have been less likely to receive benefits or use social housing than people already living in the country, according to a study that argues the new arrivals have made a net contribution of £25bn to public ...

11th November
12 Nov 2013

I should have added that 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young died 16 August, 1917 and his poignant epitaph, by which we will remember him, can be found on the city walls above Menin Gate, described by Siegfried Sassoon as the 'sepulchre of crime'.

11 Nov 2013

Remember today 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young on whose headstone is written “Sacrifice to the fallacy that war can end.”

and Morrisons

Woodland Trust
11 Nov 2013

@Mrs C This is funding that had been available through government grants. "After 2014 there will be no new grants available, for at least 2 years. There is no clarity as yet on what might happen after 2016. The Woodland Trust is demanding that Defra unlock funds to provide interim funding measures as a solution to this serious problem. The good news is that the Government already recognises ...