Cases heard at Coventry Magistrates Court on Friday, September 26, included:

Kyle Copson, 28, of Jasmine Place, Stoke Aldermoor, admitted breaching a restraining order, stealing make-up worth 65.94 from Boots, and breaching a suspended sentence. He was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours unpaid work, and told to pay 65.94 compensation.

Marcus Hibbert, 30, of Latham Road, Earlsdon, admitted breaching a suspended sentence by failing to attend unpaid work. He was jailed for four weeks.

Lee Carnall, 24, of Britannia Street, Hillfields, admitted stealing a TV and a laptop from CCS Waste Disposal. He was fined 110 and told to pay a 20 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Drew Darcy, 23, of Aldrich Avenue, Tile Hill North, admitted drink-driving (82mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. Legal limit is 35mcg), driving with the wrong licence and no insurance, failing to stop after an accident, possessing cocaine and failing to report an accident. He was given a 12-month community order with 50 hours unpaid work and programme and supervision requirements, banned from driving for 18 months, and told to pay 300 compensation, a 60 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Ben Loughrey, 22, of Holyhead Road, Coundon, admitted damaging a car park barrier worth 474.60 at The Lower Precinct. He was fined 75 and told to pay 474 compensation, a 20 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Michael Twomey, 24, of Ansty Road, Wyken, admitted drink-driving (100mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood. Legal limit is 80mg). He was fined 200, banned from driving for 15 months, and told to pay a 20 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

Stephen Hazell, 36, of Farren Road, Wyken, admitted breaching a suspended sentence by failing to attend an appointment. He was given a programme requirement for 16 days.

Michael Aubrey, 27, of Berners Close, Tile Hill, admitted stealing an iPhone5 worth 500, and failing to answer bail. He was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours unpaid work and supervision, and told to pay 50 compensation, a 60 victim surcharge and 145 costs.

Jerome Bromell, 23, of Freehold Street, Hillfields, admitted carrying a lock knife in public. He was given a 12-month community order with 120 hours unpaid work and supervision, and told to pay a 60 victim surcharge and 85 costs.

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After returning from Europe, the homeowners arrived home eager to transform their master bath into a vision of the luxury they experienced on vacation. With a 1950s, California ranch-style home with which to work, designer Jimmy Reed of Rock Solid Tile stepped in to embody the glamorous holiday in their own home.

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The 1958-dated California ranch was built in a style invented by architect Clifford May and made popular in post-World War II America. Although this type of building typically plays on California sunshine with floor-to-ceiling windows, this home still had a compartmentalized layout, a dark stall shower and low soffit ceilings in the bathroom.

The original layout was hardly a design, said Reed, but it was the norm in the 1950s and 1960s. With this in mind, the owner hoped to open up the space give it a spa retreat-type of atmosphere. After gutting the existing room, Reed expanded the bath to incorporate a new soaking tub and take advantage of the views of the Pacific Ocean. While the owners aesthetic preferences were for a modern spa, Reed wanted to combine that with my constant source of inspiration the beauty and movement of the Pacific Ocean, he explained.

Finished in blue lacquer, the floating vanity establishes a sense of lightness and echoes the nearby ocean. Wave-like, stainless steel handles add to the effect.

We wanted to do a floating vanity, but we also had to fit it between the tub deck and the shower area, explained Reed.

The team achieved the floating illusion by connecting the three areas with the vanity and framing it all with the same Calcutta gold Italian slab marble. Characterized by a white backdrop with streaks of gold and gray veining, the marble covers the shower bench, tub deck and countertops, as well as the room and shower floor. The owners are used to luxurious and exotic vacationing, and I think we were able to give them a little bit of a vacation right here in their home, said Reed. The openness and modern European crispness we achieved is quite reminiscent of their most recent journey.

Covering the wall behind the vanity and glass shower, an unusually narrow glass tile mosaic has an iridescent finish that gives it an electric appearance.

The [tile] is the most prominent and striking material we were able to use, said Reed. He designed the linear tiles that feature an irregular surface that creates the illusion of constant movement.

The combination of the special finish materials, the additional space that we were able to get and the new layout makes this a completely unique escape, he added. Source List:

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A woman has been awarded more than $35,000 after a bizarre series of events.

Isabela OSullivan, 61, was sitting on the toilet of her recently re-tiled bathroom when a tile fell, alarming her to the point that she fell forward onto the floor, reports Irish Times.

OSullivan injured her right knee in the fall and says she was so badly hurt that she laid on the floor for several minutes before calling a friend for help.

Since the accident, OSullivan reportedly has needed regular visits to the doctor, and physiotherapy.

X-Rays of OSullivans knee revealed a degenerative condition, reports The Daily Mail. The condition had not bothered her prior to the bathroom accident.

The bathroom in OSullivans home had been re-tiled a few weeks before, following a fire in her house in Rathsallagh Grove, Shankill, Ireland.

OConnell filed suit against contractor Neil Kelly, of Old Road, Monasterboice, Drogheda, Co Louth, who was hired by her insurance company to repair her home.

Kelly denied liability for the alleged negligence because he had contracted a tiler to complete the work.

Kelly added that OSullivans claim was fraudulent and that she pried the tile off the wall because she wanted different tiles after discovering not enough tiles were ordered to cover the bathroom walls.

In court it was reported that the 24 by 13 tile, weighing 6.6 lbs, broke the toilet seat when it fell.

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Published on October 19, 2014

METRO/HALIFAX As the sun set in downtown Halifax on Saturday night, art installations began popping up everywhere, scattered around the city like so many fallen leaves. In Grand Parade Square, Roy Caussy stoked coals to build a fire that formed part of a display he called Smokelife 3.

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Colleen MacIsaac paints a ceiling tile during the Nocturne festival in Halifax on Saturday.

Outside Neptune Theatre, Colleen MacIsaac painted Sambro Islands Gas House on a ceiling tile.

Along the waterfront, Ryan Josey projected a series of nautical flags, each representing a coded message, onto a screen. He hoped that people would come by and create their own messages.

Whatever the motivation, all of these artists had at least one thing in common: They were displaying their work as part of Nocturne, an art festival that took over the streets of downtown Halifax and Dartmouth on Saturday night.

The seventh annual affair, entirely run and organized by volunteers, drew many curious onlookers. In addition to the regular hustle and bustle of Saturday night in Halifax, many people could be seen staring at programs with all of the festival details, trying to figure out where to go next.

Where is Smokelife 3? Theres supposed to be hotdogs, one woman could be heard saying at Grand Parade Square, a confused look on her face.

Little did she know, the exhibit was just around the corner. It consisted of a blue tent tied to a tree and a fire in a garbage can where hot dogs would be grilled.

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A 61-year-old carer, who was injured when she fell off the toilet of her Shankill, Co Dublin, home, has been awarded almost 28,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane said Isabela OSullivan got such a fright from a falling tile as she sat on the toilet that she had fallen forward, injuring her right knee.

Barrister William Martin Smith told the court Ms OSullivan , only weeks before the September 2011 accident, had her bathroom re-tiled following a fire at her house in Rathsallagh Grove, Shankill.

She sued contractor Neil Kelly, of Old Road, Monasterboice, Drogheda, Co Louth, who had been hired by her insurance company to carry out remedial work to her home.

Mr Kelly, who had employed a tiler to do the work, denied liability for alleged negligence or that the work had not been done properly.

Judge Linnane said Mr Kelly believed Ms OSullivans claim was a fraudulent one and that she had prised the tile off the wall because she wanted different tiles after discovering that not enough tiles had been ordered to cover the bathroom walls.

Mr Martin Smith said Ms OSullivan had gone to the bathroom on September 8th, 2011. As she sat on the toilet she had noticed a flashing shadow of the tile as it fell from the top row. The fright had caused her to fall forward off the toilet seat. He said she had lain on the floor for several minutes before managing to call one of her friends.

Ms OSullivan said she had needed to attend her GP several times, complaining of ongoing pain in her knee. She had undergone physiotherapy sessions and her GP had referred her to a specialist as the pain had been persistent.

Mr Martin Smith told the court X-rays had revealed Ms OSullivan had an underlying degenerative condition in her knee. He said she was no longer able to go for long walks as she used to.

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A 61-year-old carer who was injured when she fell off the toilet of her Shankill, Co Dublin, home, has been awarded almost 28,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane said that Isabela OSullivan got such a fright when a wall tile fell down as she sat on the toilet that she fell forward, injuring her right knee.

Barrister William Martin Smith told the court that Ms OSullivan, only weeks before the September 2011 accident, had her bathroom re-tiled following a fire at her house in Rathsallagh Grove, Shankill.

She sued contractor Neil Kelly, of Old Rd, Monasterboice, Drogheda, Co Louth, who had been hired by her insurance company to carry out remedial work to her home.

Kelly, who had employed a tiler to do the work, denied liability for alleged negligence or that the work had not been done properly.

Judge Linnane said Mr Kelly believed Ms OSullivans claim was a fraudulent one and that she had prised the tile off the wall because she wanted different tiles after discovering that not enough tiles had been ordered to cover the bathroom walls.

Mr Martin Smith said Ms OSullivan had gone to the bathroom on September 8, 2011. As she sat on the toilet she had noticed a flashing shadow of the tile as it fell from the top row. The fright had caused her to fall forward off the toilet seat.

He said that she had lain on the floor for several minutes before managing to call one of her friends.

Ms OSullivan said she had needed to attend her GP several times, complaining of ongoing pain in her knee. She had undergone physiotherapy sessions and her GP had referred her to a specialist as the pain had been persistent.

Mr Martin Smith told the court X-rays had revealed Ms OSullivan had an underlying degenerative condition in her knee. He said she was no longer able to go for long walks as she used to.

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If you make a list of the things most commonly lost, or stolen, by people, umbrellas would pretty much be part of the top ten. That might not be much of a problem if you have some rundown, second-hand, no brand umbrella. But if you have a Blunt, which sells itself as the world's best umbrella, losing one would be like losing an arm or, worse, a smartphone. Luckily, Blunt has teamed up with tag marker makers Tile to gives their customers some peace of mind. At the price of buying a new umbrella, of course.

NFC and Bluetooth tags markers aren't exactly new. These little blocks, some of them the size of a key fob, can be used to pair with a smartphone, attached to an object of importance, and then set to alarm when it goes beyond a certain distance. Some are even sophisticated enough to have their own GPS inside to make locating it even easier, though most just use a bit of Bluetooth wizardry to make that happen over shorter distances.

While you can definitely attach your tag of choice to an umbrella, Blunt or otherwise, there is definitely something to be said for one that comes with it built-in. Especially if you're a fan of Blunt, whose features for umbrellas are definitely an impressive laundry list. The umbrellas work just like any Tile tag, within a distance of 100 feet and compatible with iOS or Android. There are two umbrellas being offered under the Blend + Tile promo. The Metro X_S + Tile is one that you can fold up and stow in your bag and costs $69. A regular sized Blunt Classic + Tile costs a higher $99 naturally. The umbrellas will ship in November.

Pairing a location tag with an easily lost item such as an umbrella is definitely a smart idea, one that should definitely catch on as the number of devices with NFC and Bluetooth LE start growing. Now if only you could get Tile inside the Air Umbrella, because it is definitely something that people might be interested in "accidentally" taking away by mistake. That is, if it ever gets of the ground first.

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On Wednesday, Oct. 8, a Wilson Brothers Construction crew prepared to place the last pipe in the ground on Main Street in Lovell the last of thousands in recent years.

Posing with the last fire hydrant for the Lovell water and sewer infrastructure project (with connecting stem to the water main) are (l-r) Lovell councilman and water commissioner Brian Dickson, project supt. Kim Wilson, foreman Michael Wilson and operator Mike Alcarez, all of whom have worked on the final four phases of the massive project. In the cab of the backhoe is Jason Brothers. David Peck photo

In this case, it was the final new fire hydrant for Main Street, the last connection to Lovells water and sewer system that has been almost completely rebuilt over the last 10 years.

Theres still work to be done including some concrete work, cleanup and the punch list, but for the most part, the fifth and final phase of the Lovell water and sewer infrastructure project is complete, the last four done by Wilson Brothers.

After the difficulties of the North Project in 2006-07, the final four phases of the project have run smoothly with the experienced Wilson Brothers at the helm, as the project added four more chapters to the storied history of the Cowley company.

Wilson was hired to step in and finish the North phase in 2007, then won bids for the next four phases of the project: Southeast in 2008, Southwest/Transmission Line in 2009-10, South in 2011-12 and Main Street in 2014, the final phase as the water and sewer subcontractor working with WyDOT street repair general contractor Reiman Construction.

During the eight years, according to Wilson Brothers co-owner Kim Wilson, there are four workers who have worked on all phases of the project: operator Mike Alcarez, lead foreman Jason Coble, foreman Michael Wilson and operator/trench foreman Kevin Gordon. Kim Wilson has been the superintendent of the four phases, with Lane Denzin as project coordinator, Deb Nordenstam in the company office and Lovell Town Manager Brian Dickson overseeing the project for the Town of Lovell as water commissioner.

Looking back at the project, Kim Wilson noted that his nephew Michael Wilson is part of the fifth generation of the Wilson Brothers history, and Michaels son Jessee, who works during the summer when not attending the University of Wyoming, is the sixth generation.

Wilson Brothers Construction was formed in 1999, spinning off of CA Wilson Construction after Charles A. Chick Wilson died. His sons Boyd, Wes, Kim and John formed the new company. And now Boyds son Michael, Wess son Danny and Kims sons Nick and Jeff are carrying on the family business.

The first generation was George B. Wilson, who helped build the Sidon Canal and the railroad grade through Pryor Gap around 1900. Georges son Ray Wilson was part owner of Wilson-Welch Construction, and son Chick Wilson formed CA Wilson Construction.

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Dan River Business Development Center has been a key player in the Dan River Regions reboot efforts following the economic decline that left many out of work.

Thirteen years into their work, the center takes credit for helping creating about 2,000 local jobs.

DRBC is a business incubator that offers office, light industrial and warehouse spaces. Usage of any part of the roughly 30,000 square foot space is typically under a three-year lease agreement. The center has housed various businesses and organizations for short term stays.

There are six industrial bays and the rest of the building is filled with office space. There is a room with cube desk settings, a conference room, a seminar room and a library within the building.

How it started

Somewhere in the late 90s, a group of people, both the city and county, got together and pretty much came up with the thought that an incubator was something they need, Ralph Hogg said. Since 2001, theyve pretty much been in the business of economic development directors and whomever to secure tenants here.

Hogg has been the director of operations at the center for the last three years.

The center works in conjunction with the citys office of economic development, the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, the Southside Business Technology Center, the Launch Place and the Longwood Small Business Development Center.

We dont compete with what I call the commercial real estate people. We are essentially in a way kind of subsidizing the rent. Although some people would tell you thats not really the case, Hogg said. The rent paid for a single office space grants the leaser access to the seminar room, library and conference room in addition to other extra space.

What a tenant gets when they come out here is a space that we hope will accommodate their needs. We can give them support in many different ways, Hogg said.

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