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Updating NBN News, Wednesday July 11: Mission accomplished – the near-impossible operation to get the trapped soccer team and their coach out of a flooded cave is over at last. Fatal fire – a man’s body found in a burnt-out caravan on the Central Coast. Power shake-up – power bills could fall, after the consumer watchdog uncovered pricing problems, now urging an overhaul of the energy sector. Plane crash – one person has been killed and 20 others injured, after a vintage plane crashed in South Africa. And Origin Excitement – while there may be only pride on the line for the Maroons, that hasn’t stopped excitement from building  ahead of State of Origin Three tonight.

Coming up in NBN News. The Thai cave rescue enters its final phase. A ski instructor arrested in the Jindabyne assault case. The unlikely profession proving increasingly popular with women. And all the pictures from Prince Louis’ royal christening.

It’s something most of us have done it at least once – seek medical advice on the internet. A Central Coast GP is urging patients to be wary of online diagnosis, warning Dr Google has no qualifications but instead, plenty of side effects.

The price of affording property on the Central Coast is becoming harder for local buyers, with cashed up Sydney investors paying well above the local market value. One Coast suburb is seeing three quarters of new buyers hailing from the harbour city.

Hunter man Keith Goodbun will spend at least 31 years behind bars for the “cruel and well-planned execution” of his estranged wife Molly in 2016. Rescue crews are working frantically to free a soccer team from a cave in Thailand, ahead of predicted heavy rain. Fire crews have battled fierce flames to pull a 41-year-old man to safety from a house fire in Sydney’s north west this morning. A 50-year-old woman has today admitted to grooming a male student, while working at a Port Stephens school. Big changes could be on the way for credit cards – following a worrying new report about just how much Australia owes. The Boomers have arrived home, with coach Luke Longley defending his players over the on-court brawl with the Philippines. And England has progressed to the quarter finals of the World Cup with …

Loneliness is an increasing problem on the Central Coast, with one local GP saying it has reached ‘epidemic proportions.’ Dr Ian Charlton says social isolation is hitting some communities so hard, that he’s calling on the government to appoint a Minister for Loneliness.

A dead humpback whale has washed up on Big Hill Beach near Crescent Head on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. It is continuing to inflate and has tripled in size in the past 4 hours. An exclusion zone has been set up in case it explodes. Lifeguards have sent drones up to monitor shark activity.

There’s been a new development in the search for William Tyrrell on the Mid North Coast. After receiving information relating to William’s disappearance police have expanded their search area, concentrating on an area of bushland at Cedar Loggers Lane and Batar Creek Road, near Kendall. The bushland is located about 4km away from where William was last seen at his grandmothers house in Kendall.

Businesses along Terrigal Esplanade are calling on Central Coast Council to urgently stop road work plans, which could see traffic flow diverted away from their shop fronts. Council finalised the changes in its meeting last night – prompting calls from the community to reverse the move.

CareFlight has introduced a new transfer service to provide much needed coverage for regional patients on the Mid North Coast. An additional three King-Air aeroplanes have been added to Care Flight’s fleet. And one of them arrived today.