Talks over the future of British Basketball are set to continue

The future of British Basketball remains uncertain with talks set to continue after an emergency funding summit.

The meeting on Thursday was arranged by Sports Minister Tracey Crouch and was attended by British Basketball, the two main funding agencies - Sport England and UK Sport - and the sport's world governing body FIBA.

It had been called after British Basketball revealed last month that it had until the end of March to find £1m to fund its eight GB men's, women's and age-group teams or pull the plug on the entire programme.

Crouch said: "Basketball is an important sport that does a great deal of good, particularly in inspiring people in urban areas to participate in sport.

0:41 David Lammy MP hasnearly caused an explosive situation earlier this month

With the public already suffering food price increases soaring beyond 40 percent, the supply minister decided to limit bread rations to bakery owners.

The move was meant to forestall state-run and private bakery owners from reselling subsidised flour on the market at a huge profit. But it had the effect of hugely limiting access of those without ration cards to subsidised bread.

The original plan was to drop the quantity of subsidised loaves supplied to each bakery from between 1,000 and 4,000 to only 500. Bread in colloquial Egyptian Arabic is a3ysh which translates as "life". Bread is a literal must in a country where more than 27 percent of the people live under the poverty line.

That same poverty line threatens to engulf