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Family Centre plans to make a big splash with a new fundraising campaign “Take De Plunge”.
The local charity hopes, albeit on a slightly smaller scale, to piggyback on the success of the international ice bucket challenge that raised $100 million fo...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Former Island residents Mike and Alana MacPhee have returned to perform at the Bermuda Folk Club tomorrow.
For the first time in two years the couple will appear at the club, where they were once mainstays during the 2000s.
Past performances by the M...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Gombey captain Allan Warner, who began his career as a drummer for Warner Gombeys at the age of 16, is to receive special recognition at today’s Gombey Festival.
Hosted by the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, the event takes place at the...
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A plane carrying out a medical evacuation was forced to return to the Island after encountering mechanical problems.
According to a Department of Marine and Port Services incident report, the Bermuda Maritime Operations Centre (RCC) Bermuda was conta...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Firefighters have tackled a blaze at a garage in Southampton.
Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the fire on Camp Road, Southampton, at 10pm.
“We responded to a fire at a two-storey residence where there were visible flames seen from the ...
DATE: Sep 11, 2015
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Bermuda’s Mr Happy, Johnny Barnes, has said he is thrilled to have inspired an exciting new art movement that has gone global.
His morning “I love you” to commuters arriving in Hamilton prompted a London artist to cover the streets of the English cap...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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A mobile gallery has been touring the Island and is due to make its return to the capital tomorrow.
The We Are Now gallery is a miniature cinema inside a repurposed shipping container.
The film being screened is an animated mosaic featuring more th...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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One of the Island’s top nature reserves has gone pink for the summer, but the strange colours that have taken over the waters of Spittal Pond are a harmless organism brought on by warm weather.
However, former government conservation officer David Wi...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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The Broad Arrow Lodge has handed more than $7,000 to three Bermuda charities.
The group, based on Hamilton’s Reid Street, raised the cash from a quiz night at city bar Docksiders earlier this year.
It has been split between the Summerhaven residentia...
DATE: Sep 10, 2015
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The British Airways plane that caught fire on the runway in Las Vegas forcing the evacuation of 170 passengers has flown from Bermuda on a handful of occasions this year.
Aircraft G-VIIO has travelled between London Gatwick and the Island on at least...
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