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2.5 million Brits watch Neighbors Home & Away finale pays tribute to Neighbors Friday Flashback: Specially For You 10 open to Neighbors afterlife… maybe… Neighbors final tops TV ratings

More than 2.5 million Brits tuned into the hour-long final of Neighbors on Channel 5. According to Digital Spy, it became the show’s highest-rated episode since 2008 and the third highest-rated episode ever on Channel 5. There was an outpouring of emotion on social media, especially from those who grew up with the show and …

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Pay rise for WA public sector workers to offset rising inflation and cost of living pressures

The WA Government has updated its public sector pay policy, in a move Premier Mark McGowan described as an attempt to offset recent increases in inflation. The increase will see the government’s pay offer rise from 2.75% to 3% this year and next. All public service employees will also receive a one-time sign-on bonus of …

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Pennsylvania boy, 3, contracts rare tick-borne disease while swimming in neighbor’s pool

A Pennsylvania toddler contracted a rare tick-borne illness that left him hospitalized after the bug bit him while he was swimming in a neighbor’s pool. Jamie Simonon, of Harveys Lake, said she was “terrified” after her three-year-old son Jonathan was infected with the rare Powassan virus, which caused inflammation of the brain and the thin …

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Prince Charles “accepted money from the Bin Ladens,” reports the British newspaper

The Prince of Wales accepted a million pound payment from the family of Osama bin Laden, reports The Sunday Times in the UK. He says Charles got the money from Bakr bin Laden, the patriarch of the wealthy Saudi family, and his brother Shafiq, who are half-brothers of the former al-Qaeda leader. Clarence House says …

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