Curtis: Stop wearing wristbands

Director Richard Curtis has slammed people who wear charity wristbands for the Make Poverty History campaign, despite making a TV movie to raise awareness of the project, which aims to relieve poverty in Africa.

The Love Actually film maker created TV movie The Girl In The Cafe, which will be broadcast on TV around the world during the G8 Summit as part of the campaign, to persuade politicians to cancel Third World debt, double the aid budget and rewrite global trade laws so developing countries can protect their economies.