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Here's what made the news today:

9.32am BST

All written Higher School Certificate exams in NSW will go ahead this year, but ongoing frustration over a lack of remote learning has prompted some students to call for them to be cancelled entirely.

The new timetable will be officially released on Friday morning, but a preliminary version accidentally uploaded on Thursday afternoon showed exams would run for 19 days, beginning with English on 9 November and finishing with food technology on 3 December.

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