Hurricane Teddy battered Bermuda from a distance, but the island escaped major damage.The hurricane passed the island as a Category 1 storm yesterday afternoon with its closest point of approach about 150 miles to the island’s east at about 3pm.Renée Ming, the Minister of National Security, said the island had coped well and the Government had shut down the island for the hurricane as a precaution.She said: “As with all hurricanes, there is a level of unpredictability. That was the c