CAMPAIGNERS will deliver a message in a bottle to world leaders today.

In the run-up to the G8 Summit on July 2, a white band will be tied around Middlesbrough's Bottle of Notes sculpture.

The band, an international symbol of the Make Poverty History campaign, can be seen on the wrists of many celebrities, politicians and world leaders such as Nelson Mandela.

In the last few days of negotiations before the leaders of the eight richest countries discuss global poverty, local campaigners will put the white band in place during a ceremony at 11am in Middlesbrough town centre.

The Reverend Peter Keeling, parish priest at Middlesbrough's St Francis Church, will then lead a minute's silence.

He said: "G8 countries have the resources and the knowledge to make poverty history.

"We are adding our voice to hundreds of thousands of others across the UK to ask world leaders to end the injustice of extreme poverty."

A group of campaigners will meet at All Saints' Church, Linthorpe Road, at 10.30am and walk to the Bottle of Notes on the Boulevard in the town centre