A PARTNERSHIP which provides emergency food parcels for people who would otherwise have to go hungry is running short of food.

Throughout the summer Hambleton FoodShare is again offering a scheme to ensure families who would normally rely on free school meals are able to get help from the foodbank.

“The additional up-take in demand has put extra strain on stock levels,” said co-ordinator Margaret Brice.

“We can only accept tinned or packet food and are especially short of tinned tomatoes, ready meals in tins - not spicy type - and tinned meat for sandwiches, tinned rice pudding, sponge puddings, jams and marmalades, cereal bars, custard, tinned fruit, small bags of sugar, and squash.”

Donations of tinned and packaged food can be left at collection points in Northallerton at: Tesco supermarket, Age UK,, Community House on South Parade, Sainsbury’s supermarket, Richmondshire and Hambleton Furniture Store, New Life Baptist Church and at Bedale: the Co-op, the Spar shop at Aiskew garage, and several local churches.