Sussex will be on the move this weekend to deliver just one message - Make Poverty History.

Protesters will journey by road, rail, air, sea and on foot to be part of the G8 protests organised by Sir Bob Geldof.

The first group will leave Brighton station for Edinburgh early on Friday. Supporters of Brighton and Hove World Development Movement Group will be dressed as George Bush and Tony Blair while others will represent the poor and oppressed, wearing white and weighted down with balls and chains.

More people heading for Edinburgh will join Oxfam-organised coaches leaving Brighton on Friday evening.

They will join more than 1,190 other coaches and buses arriving in the Scottish capital in time to join the mass protest the following morning.

One of those on board will be Susanne Schuster, 35, from Goldstone Villas, Hove, who entered our Oxfam/G8 competition to win two seats on the overnight coaches.

On Saturday hundreds of thousands of music fans will head for London to join the Live8 concert in Hyde Park. Hundreds of people in Sussex won pairs of tickets for the event, billed as the greatest show on earth.

In Brighton, those who cannot make the Edinburgh or London events are being asked to join the Make Your Voice Heard In Brighton protest in Pavilion Gardens.

Marie Atkinson, from Brighton World Development Movement, is asking people to come dressed in white and form a human Make Poverty History wristband around the Royal Pavilion.

Demonstrators are asked to arrive at 1.45pm ready to make the wristband at 2pm.

Also on Saturday, sailors will be answering Geldof's call to recreate the Dunkirk evacuations by sailing to France and picking up French protestors.

On Sunday, protesters dressed in white will form another human wristband around St Peter's Church in Brighton.

The demonstration will start with a two minute silence at 3pm followed by a Big Noise that will involve drummers and the Salvation Army band.

Reverend Cynthia Park, Minister at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, said: "It is the event to be at if you can't get to Gleneagles."