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Hello readers. Planners at a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary charged dead clients for years and Darrell Eastlake dies aged 75.

Hello readers. Planners at a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary charged dead clients for years and Darrell Eastlake dies aged 75.

24/10/2017: Generic pictures of Commonwealth Bank logo. Hollie Adams/The Australian

CBA planners ‘charged the dead’

Financial planners at a Commonwealth Bank subsidiary charged for services to clients who’d been dead for years, the banking royal commission has heard.

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The Beerie at Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific has banned plastic drinking straws as an environemtnal measure. Tuesday 30th January. ( AAP image / Mark Scott )

Plastic straw, cotton bud ban

Britain will ban plastic straws and other single use products and wants Commonwealth allies to also take action to tackle marine waste.

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Former Formula One (F1) world champion driver Alan Jones (R) with sports commentator Darrell Eastlakes in commentary box overlooking the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Victoria. Jones and Eastlake are two of five Channel Nine commentators covering the 10/03/1996 Australian Formula One Grand Prix.

‘ What a HUGE man’

Veteran sports broadcaster Darrell Eastlake has died following an eight year battle with emphysema and Alzheimer’s disease.

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This March 20, 2017 photo provided by Kevin Garber at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kan., shows Tammie Jo Shults, one of the pilots of a Southwest Airlines twin-engine Boeing 737 bound from New York to Dallas that made an emergency landing at the Philadelphia International Airport after the aircraft blew one of its engines Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (Kevin Garber/MidAmerica Nazarene University via AP)

Seatbelt no aid for plane victim

Pilot Tammy Jo Shults and passengers who tried to save Jennifer Riordan have been hailed as heroes after she was sucked out plane window.

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Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 in Adelaide on September 29, 2017. Musk said his company SpaceX has begun serious work on the BFR Rocket as he plans an Interplanetary Transport System. / AFP PHOTO / PETER PARKS

‘Long meetings? Just walk out’

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has aimed a rocket at tedious work meetings, office politics and “nonsense” language.