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Foodbank use likely to break all records this Christmas
FOODBANK use this Christmas is set to be the busiest on record, the Trussell Trust warns.
The charity said that its 400 foodbanks are expected to be called upon to deliver more emergency food supplies over the Christmas period than ever before.
Numbers are expected to be higher than last December, when the Trust provided 160,000 emergency three-day food supplies.
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