WILL Straw, Labour’s candidate for the Rossendale constituency, visited the Raft Foundation, the Valley’s foodbank, on Friday.

After meeting volunteers at the centre, in Rawtenstall, Mr Straw said: “Many people in Rossendale are generous with their time, money and, of course, food. As someone very wise said to me recently, that foodbanks exist should be a source of pride, that they need to exist, one of shame.”