New Crewe community food store helps lower food bills

A foodbank is asking donors to consider trying a “reverse advent calendar” this year – giving 24 items to help provide Christmas hampers to families in need. Salisbury Foodbank in Wiltshire, part of the Trussell Trust network, said it was in need of donations to make up packages for 200 local families. Manager Maria Stevenson…

“If this trend keeps happening one or two years down the line, I don’t know,” she said. “We can’t keep buying food [and] if people can’t afford to donate the food then we’ll struggle.” Loki Stokes, the food bank’s food logistics manager, added that he has “never seen our stock this low”. “We try to…

Without such measures, younger children from richer families, whose parents are more likely to be able to help them understand how to use AI tools, will gain an advantage creating a “digital divide”, warns Prof Linnéa Stenliden, at Linköping University’s Department of Behavioral Sciences.