Select the most appropriate linking word that would start the next paragraph. The Russell Trust has said that a record number of food parcels were handed out locally in Christchurch. Over the last three months, the charity handed out 2,678 emergency three-day packages at food banks across the county – 30 per cent of them to children. , in other better news, child poverty statistics are showing a slight decline, with fewer than 12 percent of youngsters in the UK now growing up on the breadline.