A community food bank in rural south Shropshire is helping a record number of people as the cost of living crisis takes an ever tightening grip.
Andy Stelman with fellow volunteers at Bishop’s Castle Community Food Bank
"Bishop's Castle is a beautiful little town and in many senses it is a rural idyll but it masks the nature of rural poverty," he said. The food bank, which opens on Tuesdays from 10am to 11.30am and Thursdays from 2.30pm to 4pm, is based at Church Barn, in Church Lane, Bishop's Castle.
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