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A Bermudian couple is seeking help to get their 11-year-old son, who has a rare and aggressive cancer, to an alternative therapy centre in Spain.
Last August doctors in the UK gave Neehari Robinson only six months to live without additional treatment...
DATE: Feb 11, 2015
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A new smart phone app that traces musician John Lennon’s journey to Bermuda in 1980, and his two-month stay — including demos of songs he recorded here — has gone on sale worldwide.
The interactive app ‘John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes’ was released th...
DATE: Nov 15, 2013
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It was an unexpected sight a two-seater couch trundling along the roads towed by two of the Island’s top runners.
Up ahead were 90 runners and walkers taking part in the ‘Sir’ Stanley Burgess 5K road race, and among them a team of 46 out to prove the...
DATE: May 15, 2013
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Residents and birdwatchers have been asked to be on the lookout for sightings of a seabird that is rarely seen further south than North Carolina.
This winter sightings of razorbill seabirds have been reported much further south, including the Florida...
DATE: Dec 27, 2012
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Swimming around Bermuda wasn’t enough for one of the five tagged turtles in the ‘Tour De Turtles’ research programme — instead it has embarked on an epic swim to Florida.
Intrepid turtle ‘Tucker’ has so far swum almost 400 miles further than any of t...
DATE: Oct 25, 2012
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One of Kenya's greatest long distance runner, Douglas Wakiihuri, has expressed gratitude to Bermuda for helping improve the lives of children in Africa's second largest slum.
A snowballing success story, which gained momentum when the 1987 World Mara...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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School children on the Island could soon benefit from the launch of six environmental documentary DVDs filmed in Bermuda.
The documentaries, four of which have previously featured in an abridged mini-series on Discovery Channel Canada, were created b...
DATE: Oct 01, 2011
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Environment
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In the final minutes of his life, former Saltus student Robert Higley ensured that others escaped from the World Trade Center's South Tower moments before it collapsed.
Two young trainees from New York, who had been under his guidance on the morning...
DATE: Sep 09, 2011
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Jahmali Bridgewater grew up in a home without a TV and spent a great deal of his time outdoors, exploring the wonders of nature.
It led him becoming a remarkable young advocate for the environment.
This month the 13-year-old will represent the Island...
DATE: Oct 09, 2010
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Bermuda's Andy Newmark speaks about his memories of working with John Lennon in a new film tracing the final nine years of the world famous English musician's life when he lived as an immigrant in the US.
Drummer Mr. Newmark, who has a Bermudian moth...
DATE: Sep 30, 2010
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