Thieves break in to a storage container and steal food and toiletries donated to families in need.
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Food banks
A community is making sure children from all backgrounds get a chance to tell Santa what they want.
A video of Darren Henry saying food bank users could take out payday loans has had 1.5m views.
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Mark Savage
BBC music reporter
The YouTube star, who landed last year's Christmas number one, is back - sausage rolls and all.
Read moreEd Thomas meets voters living in an area where half of the children grow up in poverty.
Youngsters turn Advent round to help stock food bank
Students at a Carlisle school have swapped chocolates from advent calenders for charitable acts.
Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School has decided to have a reverse Advent calendar, which means that rather than taking something away each day, they give something to the Carlisle Foodbank.
We've asked parents to bring in specific items on each day that we're in school in December, all non-perishable that we'll then take to the foodback so they can distribute it over the Christmas period."
Lansbury Park residents are changing things by growing food, planting flowers, and teaching skills.
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Powys council is set to appoint a councillor dedicated to looking at issues around food bank use.
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Harry Farley
BBC Radio 4 Today
A second year Bristol undergraduate says a student loan administration error left him penniless.
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Two German students who took food from a bin appeal against their €225 fines for theft.
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