I was busy when the horrors in Rwanda took place.  I didn't want to know .  Now I've been , it has changed my life for ever... was the headline by Charlotte Kemp

This report is about how Paul Bradley needed counselling after meeting a brave group of genocide widow.

'On a hilltop high above the Rwandan capital of Kigali, a group of widows opened their hearts to actor Paul Bradley.

The ex-EastEnders star, who made his name playing dopey Nigel, listened appalled as they spoke of the atrocities they had seen.

They described how their lives were torn apart by the genocide which swept through their homeland in 1994. Real-life stories of such brutality that the star can't even bring himself to recount all of them, let alone attempt to understand.'

Initiated by some of Britain Top Comedians, March 12th Comic Relief sets up this annual event to raise millions of pounds for worthy causes both in the UK and Africa. 'Last time, you raised a whopping £7 million' says Dawn French, one of the UK's top comediennes in the Mirror today... 'This time we're asking for the impossible.  we want everyone to get involved so we can raise more money and make this the biggest, reddest, best Red Nose Day ever.'

AAS Online hope to be able to join in so, watch this space for updates.

Quote of the day: The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
ALDOUS HUXLEY 1937