ANOTHER BANK CRISIS

   Newspapers nowadays usually devote thousands of column inches to the the bank crisis, but there is very little said about the food bank crisis. "Staggering rise of the British food bank: One opens every week after rise in families unable to afford to eat. One in five Britons are borrowing money for groceries because of the soaring cost of living. Shocking figures have revealed that every week a new food bank opens in Britain as more people find themselves struggling to make ends meet. And the number of people needing emergency aid is expected to rise with many food banks operators worried that the full impact of the recent budget will not kick in until 2013. There are now over 190 food banks nationwide, 88 of which were launched in 2011 alone." (Daily Telegraph, 17 April) An overdrawn account here doesn't mean bankruptcy - it means hunger. RD