A plain-speaking sister tells Peter Stanford why she agreed to become television’s new face of faith From early morning they have been arriving, waiting for the food bank to open at the Lally Centre in run-down Collyhurst, just north-east of Manchester’s bustling commercial centre. Patiently, the crowd mills around outside the basement doors of the Victorian school building. Upstairs is St Malachy’s Catholic Primary School, but down here the care-worn faces scrutinise every new arrival. When 70-year-old Sr Rita Lee appears, they immediately perk up as she makes her way into the drop-in centre she started eight years ago to serve a community in what is, according to official figures, one of the 10 most economically deprived areas in Britain. “They are the salt of t