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Former British Minister to visit

next week to help launch the Jason Project.Lord Young is executive chairman of Cable and Wireless Worldwide Communications Group.Along with his wife,

next week to help launch the Jason Project.

Lord Young is executive chairman of Cable and Wireless Worldwide Communications Group.

Along with his wife, he will visit a special interactive session of the Jason Project at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research.

The project is a science education programme which will benefit school students by enabling them to accompany scientists on explorations via satellite.

It is being sponsored by Cable and Wireless at a cost of $420,000 for the next three years.

He was, until July 1989, Secretary of Trade and Industry, and a member of the Cabinet. He remains a member of the Privy Council.

He will be visiting old Cabinet colleague Governor Lord Waddington during his visit.

VIPS WAY CLEARS TFC VIPs way clears Life will no longer be such a tight squeeze for the Premier and his VIP neighbours on an exclusive private estate road.

Residents of Grape Bay Drive in Paget became infuriated with a narrow entrance which only allowed one car through at a time.

The entrance caused chaos during functions held by the Hon. Sir John Swan and the US Consul General, who are both residents.

Neighbours also feared a fatal crash as motorists negotiated the tricky turn.

Now they have permission to move two 70-year-old pillars further apart and widen the entrance to South Shore Road.

BA LEAVES EARLIER FLY BA leaves earlier British Airways flights to London this summer will leave at 8.10 p.

m.

, two hours earlier than usual.

BA announced the time change to its three weekly flights, saying it would provide Bermudians with better flight connections to Europe.

The new schedule begins on April 1. The flights will arrive in London at 6.55 a.m. "When we launched our new service last year, we regarded it as just the first part of a coordinated effort to improve air links to Europe as well as to the United Kingdom,'' BA manager Mr. Phillip Troake said.

"Key to this was an early morning arrival at London, connecting to the first wave of European departures from Gatwick.'' Flights from London to Bermuda will be kept to the same 3 p.m. departure time, arriving in Bermuda at 6.20 p.m.

REPORTER FINED CTS Reporter fined VSB reporter Bryan Darby was fined $250 in Magistrates' Court yesterday for minor traffic offences.

Darby, 53, admitted driving his car on January 4 when the licence had expired at the end of last July. He also admitted to not having a valid driver's licence.

Acting Senior Magistrate the Wor. John Judge fined Darby $125 on each of the charges.

RADON TESTS START HTH Radon tests start The second phase of testing Bemuda homes for the presence of the cancer-causing gas radon started on Tuesday in 40 residences.

The testing aims to confirm the presence of the gas and help the Health Department assess its concentration in buildings.

The first phase, which involved 50 homes, ended last December.

The consumer safety approved test kits will be monitored by Environmental Health Officers, and will be analysed on March 1.

Studies have shown that breathing radon gas indoors increases the possibility of lung cancer.

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