damage to property, the Fire Services reported yesterday.

Firefighters used 2,500 gallons of water to extinguish the flames near Spithead Lodge in Warwick.

The fire was reported at 8.58 p.m. and burned brush on a 100x50-foot vacant lot.

The brush fire was the second of the day. Minutes earlier, trucks from the Port Royal Station and the US Naval Annex responded to a small blaze at Beacon Hill Road in Somerset.

The call came in at 8.55 p.m. but the flames were doused by neighbourhood residents using buckets of water.

On Saturday afternoon, firemen went to a home on Vista Drive near Bailey's Bay. The fire there was caused by a grease pot left on a stove unattended. The resident put out the flames using wet towels.

GORGEOUS MEN SET FOR BIG CONTEST CPN Gorgeous men set for big contest Some of the most gorgeous men to ever don dresses are returning to the Clay House Inn stage next weekend for a Halloween contest with a difference.

Alluring lovelies from across the globe will vie for over $2,000 in prize money at the Not Necessarily The Miss International Beauty Pageant on October 31.

The Island's very own Ms Bermuda will be there, battling it out for the top title. Contestants will appear in national costume, swim wear, lingerie and evening gown segment.

A special $150 prize will be awarded to "the best looking man in a dress'' with the audience playing judge.

Tickets for the extravaganza are available in advance for $35 from 27th Century Boutique, Traffic Boutique and Hayden's in Hamilton, Apples Boutique in Somerset and Top Of the Harbour in St George's. Tickets will be $40 at the doors, which open at 7 p.m.

TWIN BROTHERS FINED $300 EACH CTS Twin brothers fined $300 each Twin brothers Vaughn and Dean Anthony Edwards were each fined $300 at Magistrates' Court yesterday for removing a $1,800 motorcycle without the owner's consent.

The pair was seen by Police carrying the black Yamaha bike along King Street in the early hours.

Sgt. Earl Kirby, prosecuting, said Dean Edwards, of Happy Valley Road, Pembroke, ran off, leaving his brother to face the Police.

Vaughn Edwards, of no fixed abode, claimed he did not know his brother, and told the Police officers: "I was just trying to help that guy.'' Yesterday the pair, both aged 20, told Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis they had been drunk and intended hiding the bike as a prank.

"We had no intention of stealing it,'' said Dean Edwards.

PRICE PROTEST HAS COURT APPEAL CTS Price protest has court appeal A 32-year-old man was arrested after staging an unusual protest about prices in Bermuda.

Ricky Tyrone Thompson, of Brunswick Street, Hamilton, went into a Front Street ice cream parlour and asked for an ice cream, Sgt. Rex Osborne told Magistrates Court.

Told it would cost $1.75, he started cursing, saying he would only pay $1.25.

He then picked up the cash register, which had to be wrestled away from him.

Continuing to shout abuse, he was arrested and charged with threatening behaviour.

Thompson admitted the offence and had his case adjourned until November 13 for social and psychiatric reports.

"We'd have a very exciting time if everybody objected to prices in Bermuda,'' Magistrate the Wor. John Judge told him.

VISITORS RIPPED OFF CRM Visitors ripped off Taking safety precautions did not save a visiting couple from thieves during the weekend.

The couple, who were staying at a Warwick guest house, were advised by security to close their window during the night. And they complied.

But the next morning they discovered $160 had been stolen from their room.