Bridge may have actually benefitted the environment.

The National Trust's marine environmental committee has responded to a Government theory that tonnes of boulders used to fill in the waterway could have become a marine wildlife haven. ---- Page 2 ACCOUNTANT'S TRIAL NEARS END CTS Accountant's trial nears end The three-week Supreme Court trial of a Canadian man charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from his local employer concluded yesterday.

Throughout the case, 49-year-old Colin Clive Andrew Cave has repeatedly denied using company money from his employer, Davison's of Bermuda, without authorisation. ---- Page 2 COWAN CALLS IT QUITS AT VIP TOU Cowan calls it quits at VIP Health and political concerns have forced one of Bermuda's tourism experts to resign from an organisation designed to revitalise the industry.

W.A. (Toppy) Cowen quit his post as chairman of the Visitor Industry Partnership on Friday, with immediate effect, after nine months with the organisation. ---- Page 3 BIOFERM PESSES BIOFERMENTER ENV Bioferm presses biofermenter Dumped plans for a compost plant could be pulled off the dung heap. US environmentalists want to reopen talks to build the operation in Bermuda after being turned away from the old US Naval Base in St. David's.

Experts from New Hampshire-based Bioferm said they had already changed their name to Bermuda Compost Systems International after fine-tuning their technology. ---- Page 7