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A military decoration awarded to a Bermudian First World War hero has been sold at auction in the UK — for more than four times its estimated value.
Lieutenant Arthur Rowe Spurling's WWI Distinguished Flying Cross went for £12,650 ($20,890) to an ano...
DATE: Aug 14, 2009
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A senior has criticised the authorities for twice turning him away when he tried to pay a parking fine — despite Government losing more than $1 million in revenue last year from unpaid tickets.
Michael Bickley, 75, was more than willing to cough up t...
DATE: Aug 13, 2009
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A prestigious military decoration awarded to a Bermudian First World War hero will be auctioned in England next week — and a local relative of the recipient is planning to bid.
Lieutenant Arthur Rowe Spurling, from Hamilton, was given the WWI Disting...
DATE: Aug 08, 2009
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Two months ago they were languishing in the world's most notorious detention camp — but now Bermuda's Uighurs are tending the lush green fairways of a golf course with spectacular ocean views.
The former Guantánamo Bay terror suspects have been given...
DATE: Aug 05, 2009
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A 14-year-old schoolgirl will be sentenced at Juvenile Court next month after admitting attacking another teenager at Hamilton bus terminal.
The youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to stand trial after she initially denied unlaw...
DATE: Aug 04, 2009
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Police have urged Bermuda's citizens to help stop the "madness" after a bottle and chair fight involving up to 30 men broke out at Cup Match, leaving one innocent woman injured.
As many as five Police officers were attacked during the conflict in the...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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A 33-year-old Irishman became Bermuda's tenth road fatality of 2009 during the Cup Match weekend.
James Quinn, who worked at Deloitte, suffered serious head injuries after crashing his motorcycle on Crow Lane in the early hours of Saturday.
Police sa...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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Public school principals have resolved their differences with the Ministry of Education over the way a head teacher was ordered to leave her school at short notice.
The Association of School Principals (ASP) filed a complaint against the commissioner...
DATE: Aug 03, 2009
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Four hundred years ago, there would have been little to welcome the exhausted survivors of the Sea Venture to Bermuda aside from a storm-tossed beach, the screeching of the cahow and perhaps a wild hog or two.
But yesterday, as their historic journey...
DATE: Jul 29, 2009
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New head teachers are needed to run three public schools — but appointments have yet to be made with little more than a month to go before term begins.
Teachers, parents and students are in the dark about who will be in charge at Paget, West Pembroke...
DATE: Jul 28, 2009
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