A food bank serving thousands of families in one of the country’s child poverty hotspots will remain open after a council backed down from a court bid to evict it from vital premises.

Islington Foodbank had faced eviction by Islington Council, which refers 95% of the food bank’s clients. The council took the food bank to court seeking a trespass possession order for a car park its volunteers use to store food – without which, volunteers say, the vital community space would not be able to operate.

Food bank trustees accused the council of underhand tactics and local MP Jeremy Corbyn waded into the row saying “we should be fighting poverty , not food banks”.

“It secures our future at the Highbury Roundhouse site, where our team of volunteers feeds hundreds of people each month,” a spo

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