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  Courtesy Independent............
  
  Summer of hunger: Huge rise in food bank use as demand linked to 'welfare reform'
  
  Trust running country's largest network says some branches have had double the number of
  
  requests for emergency parcels since start of school holidays
  
  Food banks across Britain are being inundated with requests for emergency meals as families
  
  struggle to feed their children through the school holidays.
  
  The Trussell Trust, which runs the country's largest network of food banks, says this is the busiest
  
  summer it has ever experienced, with some of its branches seeing double the number of
  
  requests for emergency parcels since the start of the holidays.
  
  Parents whose children ordinarily receive free school lunches are among those struggling the
  
  most, as they now have to find an extra meal every day. The trust says the situation is worse
  
  than last summer because of rising food prices - which despite falling slightly in the latest
  
  Government figures are more than 4 per cent higher than last year - and the impact of the
  
  Coalition's welfare changes that were launched in April.

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