Oban - Anti-poverty campaigners yesterday began a 670-mile "pilgrimage" from a Scottish island to London to highlight the gap between Britain's rich and poor. The People's Pilgrimage Against Poverty will take seven walkers from Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, to London via 24 towns and cities.
The organisers, Church Action on Poverty, said they expected thousands of people would join the seven as they made their way south.