Starving refugees were given a helping hand from Ealing restaurant workers who sent £6,000 worth of food to Calais.

Employees at Chaudhry's TKC, on The Broadway in Southall , loaded an aid volunteer convoy with more than 1500 meals on Saturday (October 31).

Two weeks ago the restaurant gave away around 600 meals to volunteers, but the last effort saw them arm aid workers with £6,000 worth of food.

Restaurant manager Dalawar Chaundry, from Southall, said he was inspired to donate the food to refugees because of Britain's reputation for providing aid at times of need.

Mr Chaundry added: "We are all well to-do here with shelter over our heads (at the restaurant) and you look at them and it is a crisis at the moment.

"It is important that we look out for people, Britain is Great Britain, we are always at the front foot of aid deliverance and that is what it is all about.

"I am fortunate and proud to be a part of this humanitarian cause and am also very grateful YouthWay, the community and TKC, who have all been an integral part of this whole humanitarian effort."

The restaurant, which specialises in halal Chinese and Pakistani cuisine, has been involved with initiatives delivering aid since it first opened its doors in 1965.

The volunteers, a group of friends from Slough sponsored by YouthWay, were given takeaway boxes containing a pilau rice and chickpea meal.

Employees from the restaurant also handed over 500kg of dates, cartons of mango juice and milk powder drinks.

More than 30 volunteers, who Mr Chaundry hailed as "the future," went down to the Grand Hythe Camp to deliver the meals from the van.

Van driver Yassar Kassana, who drove the aid convoy from Southall to Calais, said he was shocked by the conditions the refugees were staying in.

Mr Kassana added that there was no clean running water, conditions were very muddy and a great deal of open sewage.

He said: "The refugees have no running water and a lot of these people are very unwell.

"The reception was incredible, they were overjoyed and the queues formed quickly.

"I had a sense of fulfillment and we are going to go for a third time."