TOM Bleloch from Queen's College in Taunton, was among hundreds of students from Methodist schools across the country who descended on Westminster to highlight the plight of workers in poorer countries making clothes for the West.

The students took part in a gathering at Central Hall in Westminster on Friday, before handing over to David Kennedy, from the Department for International Development, signed postcards highlighting the dangerous working conditions experienced by many workers.

The campaign was launched to coincide with London Fashion Week, which ends  tomorrow, and links with the work of All We Can, the Methodist relief and development organisation.

The drive, which has involved cooperation with the anti-poverty charity War on Want, follows the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh last year, in which more than 1,100 people died following the collapse of an eight-storey garment factory.