BRITAIN'S first 'social supermarket' in Goldthorpe, where shoppers can buy cut-price food and luxuries, should be copied around the country.
So says a report of the all-party parliamentary inquiry into hunger and food poverty.
The inquiry, by Conservative and Labour MPs and church leaders, says many families are one unexpected bill away from financial crisis.
They urge quicker benefit payments, the extension of free school meals and a living wage to reduce hunger as well as more community shops like the one in Goldthorpe.
** The full story appears in the Barnsley Chronicle, dated December 12. **
