Local food banks have highlighted a worrying trend of East Kilbride's "newly hungry" - a growing number of working people on comfortable incomes who are being forced to ask for handouts for the first time as the cost of living crisis hits hard.
EK Community Food Bank and Loaves and Fishes are seeing the demand for their services increase week-on-week with each service reporting around a 30 per cent rise from the start of the year.
Food banks are now seeing families through their doors who, pre-pandemic, were able to pay their bills and still be comfortable enough to put food on the table.
