Bosses of HSBC donate £2.5 million bonuses to charity
The chairman and chief exceutive of banking giant HSBC today donated nearly £2.5 million of their bonuses to charity.
Chairman Stephen Green, a well known philanthropist and Church of England lay minister, has given £1.9 million in shares, while Mike Geoghegan, his chief executive, gave £500,980.
The donation from Mr Geoghegan is in addition to his decision announced this year that he would give his £4 million bonus for last year to charity.
Mr Green's donation represents the entirety of his bonus shares paid under a long-term incentive scheme that has just kicked in from 2008.
April

Pact with God
The multi-millionaire founder of Kwik Save is to fulfil a "pact with God" he made as a struggling young man and donate half his fortune to the Church.
Manx-based Albert Gubay, 82, a life-long Roman Catholic who was born in Wales, has placed his business empire, valued at £600m, into a trust. The money will be passed into a charitable foundation on his death.
He founded the Kwik Save supermarket chain and has property developments in Liverpool and Manchester.
Mr Gubay, originally from Rhyl, Denbighshire, is ranked 107th on The Sunday Times Rich List in 2009, with a £480m estate.
Half of his money will go to causes identified by the Roman Catholic Church, with the other half to go to good causes selected at the discretion of the trustees.
March

God shaped my career: Police Chief
Northern Ireland's new chief constable claims thet God called him to the region's top job.
Born-again Christian, Matt Baggott said he felt his entire career in the police had been mapped out by a higher power. In an interview the 51 year old father of three explained how is faith had influenced his and his wife's joint decision to apply for the top job.
March

Letters to God - Film
In Cinemas from early April
Inspired by a true story. A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
To see a preview of the film click on the link below.
http://www.letterstogodthemovie.com/

Ringo: I've finally found God
RINGO STARR has revealed after decades of searching, he has found God. The former Beatle, 69 said his spiritual side was 'more prominent' on his new album Y Not. He added: "Being on this quest for a long time, it's about finding yourself. For me, God is in my life. The search has been on since the Sixties"
February

Controversial rugby club chief is a believer
Brendan Venter headcoach at Saracens
Back in the 1960's when he was a medical student at Bloemfontein University he looked into the whole concept of life. "I wanted to know - is there really God? I did not go into it blindly. The odds are overwhelmingly in favour of a God having created us."
Recently, the Haiti tragedy has made Venter wrestle with his beliefs because there has been so much suffering.
He says: "I have battled with that concept. In my pratice , I so often had children getting cancer, mothers getting cancer and fathers dying."
"God made a world of choice and freedom and certain things happen to us.
I don't have an answer why. We all have the same vision of life, respecting other people and speaking kindly."
February