A pair of unwashed socks worn by rocker Bryan Adams has been auctioned for charity on the internet.
The socks were left in the back of a car used to drive the Canadian star to the Children In Need show in Wrexham.

The car firm decided to sell the socks on Ebay to raise money for the Nightingale House Hospice appeal.

The winning bid was £551, but the bidder backed out so the socks have been offered to the second highest bidder for £541.

The 45-year-old singer left the socks in the back of a chauffeur-driven car after he changed his clothes following the Children In Need concert in the town in November.

Ray Squire who runs Wrexham Bluestone Cars said that the star had already signed copies of his new CD, Room Service, to be auctioned to raise money for the cancer hospice.

So when he found the socks, he decided to put them up for auction too.

“He left them in the vehicle along with some towels and pizzas,” said Mr Squire.

The money raised will go to the Nightingale House Hospice

“We had already asked him to sign some CDs so we could try and get some money for the Nightingale Hospice appeal.

“So when we saw that he had just discarded the socks, we took care of them for a while then decided to sell them too.”

The auction ended on Friday evening with the highest bid of £551, but Mr Squire said that he was disappointed when the bidder backed out of the auction.

“We have emailed the second highest bidder to explain what has happened and we hope that they will want to buy the socks instead,” he said.

“It was disappointing but we are doing all we can to raise as much as we can for Nightingale and we hope to get it all resolved by the end of the weekend so we can get the money over to the hospice,” he added.

source: BBC

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Even as Canada observes Saturday as a national mourning day for tsunami victims and individual Canadians create history by making an unprecedented contributions, Canadian stars and celebrities too are pitching in.

On Thursday night, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is bringing these stars on for a three-hour live `Canada for Asia’ concert in Toronto to raise money for the relief effort.

To be telecast and broadcast live on CBC television and radio, the concert features

Major Canadian stars, including Celine Dion, Bryan Adams, Blue Rodeo, Molly Johnson, Tom Cochrane, Bruce Cockburn, Oscar Peterson, Barenaked Ladies and Rush. Since Celine Dion performs at Las Vegas, her performance will be telecast from the Sin City.

The famous Canadian author Margaret Atwood and sports commentator Don Cherry are also participating in the live concert.

Interestingly, viewers will be asked to pay by calling a toll-free phone number or online.

All the proceeds will go to World Vision Canada, the Canadian Red Cross, UNICEF, Oxfam Canada, Care Canada, Save the Children Canada, Development and Peace and Oxfam Quebec. These agencies are currently involved in the rescue operations in the tsunami-hit Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

CBC (the public broadcaster in this country) has asked all private broadcasters such as CHUM, CTV and Global to air the concert. If all private channels air the show, “we will reach not only all of Canada - and that’s a goal - it will be a golden and sterling moment,” senator Jerry Graftstein, who is involved in the star show, said in Toronto.

In this open season of generosity, Canadian TV and radio channels seem to be vying with one another to contribute to the relief effort. This Wednesday, CHUM group’s 65 radio and TV stations raised $3.6 million from listeners through donations.

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A new BA Song that will be on the soundtrack of the the movie Racing Stripes which hits theatres in North America January 14th. The song is called, “It Ain’t Over Yet” and is written by BA, Gretchen Peters and Eliot Kennedy. It is produced and performed by Bryan. The film is an animated family adventure about an abandoned zebra (voice of Frankie Muniz) who grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl (Hayden Panettiere), sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbreds. Racing Stripes hits the UK Cinemas Feb 4th, German Cinemas March 10th and is out already in Australia last week.

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