Churchgoers are raising awareness of people living in the Third World.

A box full of till receipts for more than £51,000 was handed over to the Keighley branch of Sainsbury's by representatives of Keighley Churches Together and Christian Aid on Wednes-day afternoon.

The collection was part of a two-month campaign - the Great Supermarket Till Receipt Collection Scheme - to raise shoppers' awareness of the hardships faced by those living in poverty and despair. It especially focused on fair trading.

Margaret Flawn, secretary of Keighley Churches Together, says: "This is people speaking with spending power."

Christian Aid wants supermarkets to:

adopt a set of ethical principles for their Third World buying

implement a code of conduct for all overseas suppliers of own-brand products by the year 2000.

agree to independent monitoring of adherence to the code.

To take part in the campaign, shoppers were asked to hold on to their supermarket till receipts, then to take them to their churches. Keighley's major supermarkets - the Co-Op, Morrison's and Sainsbury's - participated.

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