A community foodbank said it has had to turn people away due to high demand and funding struggles.

The Silver Road Community Centre in Norwich, Norfolk, started its food bank and community fridge in 2020, in response to the Covid pandemic.

The food bank is run by a team of volunteers and relies on grants and donations to finance the service.

Julie Brociek-Coulton, a Labour councillor on Norfolk County Council and a volunteer manager at the food bank, said: "We used to get quite a lot of grants, but with the cost of living and everything, it's just been so cut back."

Over the last five years, Brociek-Coulton said she has seen an increase in the number of people needing the help of the food bank.

The Trussell Trust, a food bank charity, said it has seen a 51% increase over the last five years in the number of emergency food parcels it has provided to people in the UK.

Last year 332,540 emergency food parcels were handed out by the trust across the East of England, compared with 190,144 in 2019.

Brociek-Coulton said that the food bank and community fridge serve about 100 people every week.

"That is a lot of people who are coming in, and we're an essential part of the community," she said.

"Everyone I talk to about food banks, they mention Universal Credit.

"But it's not like that anymore. All sorts of people are coming in here now," she added.

The Silver Road food bank is funded by donations from the community and grants that the team apply for.

"Recently we put in for a grant that would help us for six or seven months, and we didn't get it," Brociek-Coulton said.

"That was one of the main things we needed to survive."

"We used to get quite a lot of grants, but with the cost of living and everything, it's just been so cut back."

Without this grant, Brociek-Coulton estimated the organisation would be able to help 50 fewer people every month.

She added: "It's really devastating to those people, but what can we do?"

A 14-year-old boy who helped overturn a police car during disorder in Leeds last summer has been handed a youth rehabilitation order.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, posed for a photograph in front of the upturned vehicle as troubled flared in the Harehills area on 18 July.

The boy, who was 13 at the time, was also part of a crowd who threw missiles at police officers.

The defendant, who was found guilty of violent disorder at a trial last month, continues to deny being present during the trouble, Leeds Youth Court was told on Wednesday.

Representing the defendant, John Ratcliff told the court he had tried to persuade the boy it would "help" his case if he was "willing to admit his involvement" given the "strength of the evidence".

He added: "Unfortunately, and that's from my perspective, he is still maintaining that he was not involved."

Speaking through an interpreter in court, however, the boy's father said he was "sorry" on his son's behalf.

The court had earlier been told how the disorder had started when social workers were removing children from another family in the Harehills area under a family court order.

When police arrived they were attacked by a crowd, which included the teenager, who was pictured on CCTV throwing pebbles.

He was also seen throwing a football, which struck an officer on the arm, it was said.

As the trouble continued, a bus was set on fire after its driver and passengers abandoned it, and other property was vandalised and set alight, although there was no suggestion the boy was involved in those incidents.

The overall cost of the disorder and the clean-up has been estimated at £850,000, the court was told.

District Judge Charlotte Holland said that although the teenager had no previous convictions, his pre-sentence report suggested there was a "high" likelihood of him committing further offences without involvement with the Youth Justice Service.

Sentencing him to a 12-month order, she told the defendant: "What happened on that day was serious and we need to make sure you never commit offences like that again."

The teenager's family was also told to pay £100 to cover the costs of his trial.

Addressing the boy's father, Judge Holland added: "He will have to help you out with jobs around the house, to make sure he pays you back."

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