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Tuesday, 11 May 2010 16:42


Andy Powell, mayor of Bideford in north Devon, England, wants to use DNA testing to prove residents from his port town settled in America three decades before the Pilgrim Fathers.  He believes a fleet sailed from Bideford in 1587 and subsequently founded the "lost colony" of Roanoke off the coast of North Carolina.  Click here to read more of the story at Telegraph.co.uk.