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Comedians confess The week’s best comedy on TV and radio. Sunday January 31 ELVIS MCGONAGALL - FULL TARTAN JACKET: The stand-up poet, comedian and armchair revolutionary performs his satirical verse in the latest of Radio 4’s stand-up specials. Radio 4, 7.15pm RHOD GILBERT: STAND UP TO FERTILITY: A network outing for the comedian’s entertaining yet important documentary about male fertility following its BBC One Wales outing last week. Read our review here. Monday February 1 BRUSH STROKES...

Oakridger Based on tests for genetic material in Oak Ridge’s sewers, there is a continuing need for people to act with caution with regard to COVID-19. The two current spots for testing, Turtle Park Wastewater Treatment Plant and Rarity Ridge Wastewater Treatment Plant are in what the city of Oak Ridge Public Works has called a “yellow” or “widespread transmission imminent” zone of concentration, meaning it’s in the 100,000 to 1 million particles per liter for positive SARS-CoV-2 Ge...

Caythorpe man given suspended jail sentence after being caught with indecent images of children  | Updated: 12:29, 28 January 2021 A Caythorpe man caught with thousands of indecent images of children has been given a suspended jail sentence. Officers received information that 65-year-old Anthony Burke, of Caythorpe Heath, Caythorpe, had been downloading the illegal images and in January 2020 tracked him down to an industrial estate at Caythorpe Heath near Grantham where he was living in his c...

Newark: Suspended jail sentence for Caythorpe man caught with thousands of child abuse images  | Updated: 15:30, 28 January 2021 A man caught with thousands of indecent images of children has been given a suspended jail sentence. Officers received information that 65-year-old Anthony Burke had been downloading the illegal images and in January 2020 tracked him down to an industrial estate at Caythorpe Heath, Lincolnshire, where he was living in his car. Victoria Rose, prosecuting, told Lincol...

Home/Florida Good/Alachua County Conducts 2021 Point-in-Time Count Amid Pandemic Alachua County Conducts 2021 Point-in-Time Count Amid Pandemic By Lillian Lawson January 27, 2021 Dozens of volunteers met at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church early Tuesday with coffee and donuts in hand, ready for the annual point-in-time count of homeless people in Alachua County. The volunteers found their team and zone assignments on a whiteboard. Each team gathered plenty of red care bags with toiletries, socks...

Oakridger At its special called meeting on Monday, the Oak Ridge City Council unanimously approved five grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the state of Tennessee to help it develop the Oak Ridge General Aviation airport. Some of the grants, as the resolution and the agenda for the meeting indicate, were previously available to the Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority, which was in charge of the airport project before the city took it over last year.  The City Council has n...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. No More Jockeys: How a Lo-Fi Lockdown Game Took YouTube by Storm The quarantine quiz show, invented and played by comedians Tim Key, Mark Watson and Alex Horne, has been a surreal coronavirus balm By Tom Wiggins Haiminh Le On 30 April 2020, comedians Alex Horne, Tim Key and Mark Watson uploaded a YouTube video of themselves playing a game they’d invented called No More Jockeys. Nine months, 29 episodes a...

OREPA plans action near Y-12 Friday to mark nuclear weapons treaty start Oakridger The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance will mark the beginning of a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons with what is said to be a “peaceful protest” near the Y-12 National Security Complex on Friday. The group invited people via Facebook to join the protest at 1 p.m. Friday on Scarboro Road across from Y-12 and the New Hope Visitor’s Center. OREPA plans to read the treaty and hang a banner stating “As ...

Oakridger Oak Ridge City Council has approved — with six votes for and one against — rezoning that could lead to a new training center in Oak Ridge for firefighters and state and federal groups. The vote was on second reading, making it final. The rezoning changes the land from a special federal zone to an industrial type of zoning used for private developments such as this one. The land is currently federal, but the future owner for much of the development will be a limited liability compa...

The latest round of Victorias regional travel vouchers have been snapped up within 20 minutes, as tens of thousands of Victorians rushed online to grab one of the free coupons. The second batch of 40,000 vouchers, which are redeemable for travel between January 27 and April 1, were made available on the Service Victoria website at 10am. After just 20 minutes of going live, the website advised the allocation had been exhausted. Victorians have snapped up all of the latest travel vouchers. (Suppl...