The number of people in the UK receiving emergency food aid has doubled, according to figures from the Trussell Trust, which operates food banks.
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People in some developing countries would need to spend nearly four times their weekly salary to buy the kind of food purchased by people in the UK, Save the Children has said.
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More than a million older women will be living with breast cancer within a generation and the NHS is ill-prepared to take care of them, Macmillan Cancer Research has warned.
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Some parts of Britain have seen a 1,700 per cent surge in the number of young people unemployed for more than two years, according to research by the Prince’s Trust.
