After a little more than six months, 145 Good Neighbour members have signed up to the professor's scheme.

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It is, she writes, big, ambitious and usually a good neighbour.

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The funeral service was conducted by Rev Neil Combe, who remembered McLaren as a good neighbour and a very private man who respected the privacy of others.

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"Georgia wants to belong to European and Euro-Atlantic structures but at the same time to have good relations with every neighbour, " said Georgian political analyst Alexander Rondeli.

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Actress Penelope Keith, who played the snobbish neighbour Margo to Briers' character Tom in The Good Life, said the actor's death was "an enormous loss".

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For me, as a Christian, one of the most important of these teachings is contained in the parable of the Good Samaritan, when Jesus answers the question, 'Who is my neighbour?

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As its neighbour, Indonesia, is torn by violence and corruption, Australia seems to present a good model for the region.

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