and concrete wall that appears to have very quietly been built down the entire eastern side of the public tribe road leading to Elbow Beach . Hester was shocked upon closer inspection to see that hundreds of menacing 1-inch nails -- sharp side up -- had been stuck in the top of the wall, not somewhere you'd like your bottom to land. What has Bermuda come to? Either the Saudi prince owner has gone to extremes to make the riff-raff most unwelcome at his swanky Elbow Beach Hotel, or it's a sign of the times and this is the kind of radical measure required to keep thieves out. Or maybe Elbow's increasingly star-studded guest list requires such un-Bermudian security measures. Hester's told the entire group of Gillette Tour Challenge golf stars including John Daly are staying at the resort in October due to the closure of Marriott.

Currently, movie star Emilio Estevez , son of Martin Sheen , is staying there.

Hester spotted the Breakfast Club star, his attractive partner and two kids having pizzas at Mickey's on the weekend. Perhaps he's visiting his uncle Frank Estevez -- the guidance counsellor at Mount St. Agnes high school.

Busy Education Minister and Government Senate Leader Milton Scott worked for more than a decade as the teachers union organiser. But Hester hears he has run afoul of die-hard Bermuda Industrial Union members in his new third job as Stevedoring Services' human resources manager. Hester hears a PLP election campaign poster keeps appearing on doors at Hamilton Docks with Sen. Scott's face cut out. Apparently some dockworkers don't think he's on their side all the time.

Talking of celebs, Hester was flipping through her favourite British gossip mag Hello! when she came across a glossy double-page colour spread on this summer's big wedding of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts' daughter Seraphina and Bermudian lawyer Nicholas Hoskins .

"A simple ceremony in Bermuda...in a small, white wood church'', glowed the headline, revealing Seraphina first met Nick when she was 14, and that Charlie was there when he got down on his knee. It seems there's nothing like a celebrity wedding to flog photos to the international press though. Art Simons was the official photographer but Hester hears another local photographer Ernie McCreight cashed in for his pics of the bride, her famous dad, her daughter Charlotte, and the groom at Christ Church, Warwick -- where the walls were made of limestone the last time Hester checked. And according to the photo credits, Bermuda Sun staffer Jamey Penney-Ritter , was in on the action too. While the Hoskins-Watts wedding got lots of play, however, it was Raquel Welch's marriage (or more likely the revealing dress she wore) that made the cover of the late August issue of Hello! Hester recalls how an English reporter sent here on assignment once remarked that Bermuda must be the most boring place on Earth. Well thank goodness he wasn't here this week for what's proving to be one of the biggest `events' of the century for us locals. That would be the moving of massive engines by remote-control trailer at two miles per hour through the city to Belco's HQ -- led by police and burly men on Oleander rental bikes. The several hundred excited residents who turned out on Monday night for the "event'' came armed with everything from fold-up chairs to cameras and video recorders. Some who lined the streets followed the engines and in a carnival-like atmosphere cheered everytime the giant trailer negotiated a corner.

"It brought the whole community together,'' gushed Corp. of Hamilton secretary Roger Sherratt on the radio news. All that was missing was the gombeys, remarked one bystander.

Apparently there are more than a few prima donnas among the high-priced UK lawyers involved in the Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza case. A few of them are "fed up with life in paradise'' according to an article in UK trade publication The Lawyer. They can't take the heat, The Lawyer says. Some moaned to the publication about the high humidity causing equipment to break down and tempers to fray, plus constant delays due to legal arguments and scheduling in finally starting the trial are keeping them "thousands of miles away'' in Bermuda longer than they can stand.

"Fun in the sun it certainly is not,'' one of them is quoted as saying.

Hester was heartened to hear, however, that the poor lawyers have "bonded because of the extraordinary conditions'' in Bermuda. What the article doesn't mention is these wining legal eagles are stuck in Bermuda in air-conditioned luxury homes going for up to $12,000 a month rent, which ain't coming out of their pockets! Further, Hester is told, they are being paid up to $5,000 a day -- more than enough to jet home to sunny England every weekend if that's their cup of tea.

Charlie Watts and daughter as seen in Hello!