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Two jewellery shop staff have been hit with £2,000 court costs after they illegally used a blue badge parking permit.

HUNTINGTON — The obstacles that the Cabell County Board of Education will face in building the new Davis Creek Elementary School are not what many thought they might be. The proposed location, the site of the former Barboursville Brick Company, has long been the focus of conversations centered on contaminants and has not had a tenant since the factory closed in 1979. But contaminated soil isn’t the biggest hurdle the school board will have to clear to build there — it’s what...

A ferry that found itself broken down and adrift ended up being rescued by both of Falmouths lifeboats. The Inshore Lifeboat was already on the river attending another incident when they were informed, just after midday on Sunday, that a local ferry had issued a Pan broadcast. The Flushing Ferry was reporting that its engine had failed and it was adrift, with one person onboard off Falmouths Prince of Wales Pier. The Inshore Lifeboat arrived on scene at 12.05pm and found that the ten-me...