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A charity against alcohol abuse is again offering a free lift home to make the roads safer over Christmas and New Year’s Eve. CADA’s “Let Us Drive” programme will run from outside the LOM Building on the corner of Burnaby and Reid Street in Hamilton ...

The Government has paid an Irish firm more than $275,000 to replace security doors at the island’s prisons. According to a notice published in the Official Gazette, Technical Door Solutions were contracted to carry out the work at both Westgate and t...

Two men have been taken to hospital tonight after apparently being overcome by toxic fumes while working in a tank. The men were found unconscious in a tank on Radnor Road, in Hamilton Parish, shortly before 7.30pm. Fire Service personnel and an ambu...

A Christmas charity drive designed to give toys, food hampers and medicines to people in need has been boosted by one of the island’s churches. Gina Spence Productions has teamed up with Restoration Ministries in Southampton to run the event at the w...

A female motorcyclist was injured after a collision with a van on North Shore Road in Pembroke this morning. The accident happened shortly before noon at the junction of North Shore Road and Band Room Lane. A police spokesman said the motorcyclist s...

Santa Claus paid an early visit to the island last night when he took part in the annual MarketPlace Christmas Parade. Hundreds of spectators lined the route as a fleet of more than a dozen vehicles snaked its way through Hamilton. The parade had st...

A 40-year-old man jailed for smuggling gun parts into the island has had his appeal against conviction thrown out. James Rumley, 40, argued in the Court of Appeal that the three charges against him should have been tried separately and that the judge...

At $725,000 a week to rent (or $650,000 a week in the winter), this explorer yacht really is from a different planet. The vessel, Planet Nine, moored in St George’s Harbour, is quite a sight and comes with, among other things, its own helipad. The b...

A gap in support programmes led to the creation of a charity dedicated to the empowerment of young men. Ten months later, Transitional Community Services is seeing results. Fiona McWhirter reports. At the age of 18, many young men are often exp...

North Hamilton was bustling yesterday afternoon as crowds of shoppers snapped up Christmas bargains at the Court Street Market. More than 60 retailers set up stalls on the street, which was closed to traffic for the afternoon. Rena Lalgie, the govern...