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Juli Campbell read her poetry to Dorothy Trimingham every Thursday evening, for 20 years. She always gave her a copy; she assumed her friend threw it away. When Mrs Trimingham died in June at 91, Ms Campbell learnt she’d kept every poem she ever gave...

A collapsing stage, an old cigarette machine and a few bits of rotting furniture were mostly all that was left inside the old Clayhouse Inn. None of it fazed filmmaker Milton Raposo. The music lover thought the once popular nightclub was the perfect...

Billy Gringley’s artwork was falling into a rut. He’d had a few solo shows but his work was taking a back seat to the maintenance and construction jobs he took to support his family. “Art takes time,” he said. “I need long stretches of time to devot...

What could be better than death by bacon? Bermuda’s bacon lovers are sticking by the breakfast staple despite the World Health Organization’s warning that it’s no better for you than asbestos or cigarettes. The nitrates in the processed meat are said...

Sabrina Heyns laboured for 36 hours, had two failed epidurals, general anaesthesia and an emergency caesarean section. So when nurses handed over her day-old daughter, Sophia, on October 24, Mrs Heyns didn’t feel able to cope. “I was afraid the baby ...

Bermudian paratrooper George Fisher walked 100 kilometres with two bullets in his legs during the Second World War. In September 1944, when he was 24 years old, he was shot and captured during the failed British Market Garden Operation in the Netherl...

If you want to rile Dick Reno, go to the window of his food truck and order a hamburger. He’s the new chef at The Smokin’ Barrel on Front Street, and recently revamped the menu to reflect a Texas barbecue theme. His idea was to expand what he perceiv...

Apryl Jackson was overwhelmed when she first transferred to Warwick Academy. She was 14 and struggled to fit in. “I felt out of place and acted out negatively,” Miss Jackson, now 23, said. “I was often in trouble.” In stepped teacher Jessica Bowdle...

Virginia McKey dreamed of representing Bermuda in the Pan American Games for years. She was almost there when tragedy struck. Her horse, Wolkenglanz, got nervous and threw her as she trained in Canada for the 2011 games. The accident shattered one of...

Norma Latham never would have guessed that her rotis could raise thousands of dollars for charity. She’d been making the flatbread since she was a child in her native Guyana. Five years ago she learnt about the work Bermuda Overseas Missions was doin...