Feed A Family: The Star looks ahead to what is likely to be a tough winter for Black Country food banks
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More than 2,000 people were turned away from polling stations at local elections in the Black Country because they didn't produce acceptable ID.
But the majority of them later returned to cast a vote, meaning just 884 were unable to vote under the new rules. The figure represents around 0.6 per cent of the total number of votes cast at ballot boxes across the four boroughs.
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