Within days, patients received a letter bearing news of a second calamity.

"They know we bear urgent news, and so the word has been passed to give us open water."

She had struggled to come here, to bear news they didn't need.

But in the split second of a phone call bearing tragic news, a player's life and a coach's world were turned inside out.

Then there's the taxes, and once again, I hate to bear bad news but it is clear he didn't pay them.

She seemed capable of bearing bad news if it had come.

Seeing the man's expression, though, they knew their leader did not bear welcome news.

I fear we come bearing bad news,' she said.

It turned out he really wasn't up for bearing bad news.

She also bears news that the Queen has finally conceived.