Rural poverty: when the food bank is only 20 miles away...  Low-
income families skip meals because they can't afford to get to
the nearest shop to buy groceries, and walk for hours to get a
charity food parcel, according to a report into rural food
poverty A man walks across snow-covered fields on the North
Yorkshire moors Long way for a food parcel: A man walks across
snow-covered fields on the North Yorkshire moors. Photograph:
Anna Gowthorpe/PA  As the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu,
suggested in a powerful speech this week, the "new and terrible
blight" of food poverty in the UK is not the sole preserve of
gritty urban neighbourhoods.  He highlighted his own neck of the
woods, North Yorkshire, the home of rolling dales and affluent,
pretty market towns, as a case in point.  Sentamu referred in
passing to a recent survey of food poverty in the area. It is
well worth a read. Geographically-isolated low income families,
it shows, are at high risk of food poverty. Demand for food aid
is rising, like everywh