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London food bank queue stretches down road

A video showing dozens of people lining up for a food bank was the "largest queue they have encountered", an organisation has said.

London's Community Kitchen live-streamed masses of people queuing outside the food bank in Wembley, west London, on Saturday.

The group said the third lockdown had intensified demand for food parcels .

12 February 2021

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