CARING Sikh school children emptied their piggy banks to donate a pound each to the American Red Cross fund for the families of those killed in the US terrorist attacks.

Fourteen Featherstone Primary School pupils visited the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square on Thursday last week to present £378 to deputy ambassador Glyn Davies and cultural attache Kimberly Murphy.

Mr Davies spent over half an hour talking to children from the Featherstone Road school in Southall, who also presented two books of condolence containing their own artwork, prayers and poems expressing their feelings in the wake of the disasters in New York and Washington.

Meanwhile, a multi-faith vigil for peace is set to attract hundreds of residents on Sunday. In a powerful display of unity, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Bahai, Sikh, Buddhist, Zoro-astrian and Quaker religions will gather in Ealing Town Hall at 3.30pm. The event follows military action in Afghanistan.

Local Muslims are keen to distance themselves from the terrorist attacks. Mosque Alliance of West London spokesman Shahid Akmal said: "Muslims the world over deplore these attacks. The Koran says if you kill an innocent it is as if you have killed the whole of humanity."