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As Hollywood begins mounting an industrywide effort to create protocols for films and TV shows to safely return to production, there will be a test case to draw upon. Australia’s long-running soap Neighbours will resume filming next week after a monthlong production shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is believed to be the first suspended TV drama in the English-speaking world to restart production. Here are the safety guidelines that being put into place by Neighbours‘ production company Fremantle Australia, which, in success, could be a road map for other shows and for reopening Hollywood. — The studio has...

A WACKY inventor from Marlow Bottom may quit the village amid fears that he is the victim of a hate campaign after his house was vandalised. Lyndon Yorke named Britain's most eccentric man was dismayed to find a World War Two gun turret, which had adorned the roof of his garage, smashed on the ground. Just three days earlier, the 55-year-old had received an anonymous letter claiming to speak on behalf of neighbouring residents, which asked him to remove the aircraft memorabilia because it was causing house prices to plummet.

Volcano neighbours refuse to move Sophie Arie in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio Sunday August 31, 2003 The Observer (UK) Peering into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, all looks calm. There are signs of the volcano's last convulsions - piles of ash, strange twisted layers of solidified lava - but not the slightest rumble. There has not been one for years. As the locals say: 'He is sleeping. He won't trouble us.' But experts are now warning that the slumbering mountain's next stirring could produce an even more devastating eruption than the one that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculanaeum...

A 75-year-old woman has upset her neighbours in southern China by cooking topless on her apartment balcony. Neighbours complained to local authorities about the woman who cooks topless even in icy weather on the balcony of her home in Dongguan. The widow appeared to be polite and intelligent in all respects other than her tendency to remove her top before cooking out of doors, the Southern Metropolis News said. The neighbourhood committee talked to the woman but she told them it was "nobody's business" how she dressed at home. Explaining why she cooked topless, the woman reportedly quoted an old...

Feuding families in an otherwise peaceful Munich suburb have installed barbed-wire barricades, cameras, 12ft-high fences and movement sensors to guard their homes and gardens in Germany's longest-running dispute between two neighbours. The Bensch and the Kern families, who occupy the two halves of a semi-detached house in Waldperlach, have turned their properties into something resembling a prison camp in the course of a 14-year row. Elsewhere in the suburb, which was originally built to provide country homes for army officers, blossoming cherry trees line wide avenues and there are flower beds on every corner. Most homes in Waldperlach sell for...