Last time the Observer visited St Andrew’s church in London, we heard how paying bills was difficult. Now, even with the warmer weather, nothing has got easier

At 7.40am, when Charlotte White, the Earlsfield food bank manager, arrives for work, people are already waiting outside the redbrick building of St Andrew’s church in south-west London.

When she opens the doors a couple of hours later, many of the faces in the queue snaking out of the gate and down the road are new since the Observer last visited in December. But not Lofe Chabal, who is near the front.

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