EIGHT Guernsey personalities were captured by pirates yesterday and were not released until they had raised £1,000 each.

CHILDREN as young as 10 are believed to have caused more than £100-worth of damage to the Communicate charity shop, chairwoman Sarah Bamford has said.

HELP FOR HEROES is performing miracles for people, one current serviceman said at the annual Yuletide Yomp yesterday.

THE sale of its storage and packing facility in St Martin’s has left the Tumaini Fund less than two weeks to find a new site to store donated equipment for orphans in Tanzania.

A VARIETY of soups were produced by island restaurants and schools as part of The Big Soup Kitchen Challenge.

THREE charities have launched an amnesty to get back missing specialist equipment.

MORE than 100 rowers took to their machines yesterday to raise money for Guernsey Cheshire Home and the Guernsey MS Society.

TWELVE members of the Guernsey Rowing Club have come to the end of their training for the indoor 100km Centurion Charity Row – the extreme rowing event on Sunday at Beau Sejour, starting at 9am.

SCHOOLGIRL Morgan Jones has raised £86 for the GSPCA.

A TRACTOR restored by three-time World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx has provided a boost to the Caritas Community Charitable Trust’s market garden project.