As we’ve heard interest rates were today hiked up by the Bank of England – that will stretch families budgets even further.
But there are warnings tonight that food is now the frontline of the cost of living crisis with increasing numbers of Scots unable to afford basic essentials – and its a crisis that is getting worse by the day.
Charities say parents, some previously well off, are being forced to pick between feeding themselves or their children.
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