Tom Murrin News Today

Keen shoppers stood from around 6am this morning in eager anticipation of the shutters rising at 9am on the new Wilko stores at shopping centres in Plymouth and Exeter.

CAN AN ARTIST HIT THE JUGULAR while they’re reaching for the wallet at the same time? Only if the wallet and the jugular are the same thing. In the cultural devolution of “audience” to “eyeballs,” perhaps no genre has so loudly insisted on its robust resistance to power as comedy—and perhaps no genre’s complicity has, since 2017, been made more transparent. (Let the rise of Joe Rogan be citation enough here.) To borrow a one-liner from Morgan Bassichis’s brilliant solo performanc...

Rabid fox attacks three women now undergoing treatment for injuries and rabies infection. BARRINGTON – Three women were injured in separate attacks the afternoon of March 24 in the 900 block area of East Lake Road on Keuka Lake in the town of Barrington. According to the reports filed by Yates County Animal Control Officer Tom Morris, around 2 p.m., Emily OBrien, 69, of 870 East Lake Road, was walking on the beach when she was bitten several times on the leg in an unprovoked attack by an aggr...