TWO anti-poverty campaigners from Glasgow plan to open a food and clothes bank in the city.

Darren Carnegie, 24 is so concerned with the plight of people in Glasgow he aims to dedicate his life to help those who need it most. He will be joined in the venture by his father Andrew, 43,

The pair, from Blackhill, travelled to the G8 Summit at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, in June this year to challenge world leaders.

Darren made worldwide headlines after posing in a tartan G-string with a sign which read: "Blackhill, Glasgow, end poverty now."

He said: "We wanted to make people see there was two people from Glasgow representing them.

"We are at grass roots level. All my friends went to Ibiza on holiday this year but I chose to spend the money I'd have spent there on going to Enniskillen."

The father-and-son team had gone to the Gleneagles Summit in 2005 and hoped there would be changes for people in deprivation.

Darren said: "That was huge. People like Bono and Bob Geldof were there. Because they are celebrities they can create a hype and they can get people to go and to take notice.

"Eight years down the line and nothing had changed."

Darren said that food shortages became more evident to him when he realised people were searching bins for food.

The construction worker said: "We saw two people in our back garden. I asked my dad to check who it was because I thought they might steal washing we had hanging out.

"But they were scavenging through the bins for food. When I seen realised I broke down crying. We told them to come back in a couple of days when we could get more food for them."

Andrew, who is launching an art show based on poverty later this year, has beenproviding people with clothes for 20 years and is in the early stages of planning the food and clothes bank for the North and East of the city.

rachel.loxton@ eveningtimes.co.uk