Huge rise in food redistribution to people in need across UK

Charity FareShare is feeding three quarters of a million people a week with food that would otherwise go to waste - a 60% rise since last year

The UK's largest food redistribution charity is helping to feed a record 772,000 people a week - 60% more than the previous year - with food that would otherwise be wasted, new figures reveal.

One in eight people in the UK go hungry every day - with the most needy increasingly dependent on food banks - yet perfectly good food is wasted every day through the food production supply chain.