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Key stories making headlines today include the public exhibition of plans for a 43-storey apartment and hotel in Wickham, an elderly driver who was reportedly blinded by the sun before a tragic crash that killed a boy, and another legal case looming over deadly mould at a Hunter cancer hospital.
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Tributes and Funerals Notices
- Cotton, Dorothy (Published May 13)
- Dunlop, Ian (Published May 13)
- Ephlick, Wendy (Published May 13)
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