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Police are responding at a business in Virginia, after a suspicious item was found. 

Officers were called to Sandgate Road just after 12.30pm, and specialist officers are on route to the scene. 

A 100m exclusion One has been set and the business has been partially evacuated. 

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With the ACCC handing down its report regarding the major supermarkets, questions are being asked about how customers and suppliers can be protected after they were cleared of price-gouging.

ACCC deputy chair Mick Keogh says the suppliers are at a "significant disadvantage" bargaining with the supermarkets.

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Renowned businessman and philanthropist Stefan Ackerie AM will be honoured tonight as the 58th recipient of the Keys to the City.

Stefan told Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons, "It's very humbling."

"I was a very lucky young man to discover Brisbane, and somehow I knew it was for me," he continued. 

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Fans of the Bunnings Sausage sizzle are in for a treat tomorrow with Bunnings' across the nation selling sausages for a good cause!

Director of Stores Rod Caust says people can come in anytime after nine in the morning until 4 pm. 

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The Electoral Commission of Queensland is pushing for enrolled voters to ensure they vote after they wrote to about 350,000 Queenslanders who didn't vote in the last state election.

Commissioner Pat Vidgen says he would have liked the number to have been lower but welcomes those who didn't vote to contact the commission and explain why.

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United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to an immediate pause in strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. 

President Putin did not endorse a 30-day ceasefire that the United States is calling for to ensure peace.  

CEO of Intelligent Risks, Neil Fergus joined Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons to break down the immediate pause between Russia and Ukraine. 

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Irritable Bowel Syndrome impacts around 3.6 million Australians, with common remedies including dietary and stress management. 

However, self-hypnosis could alleviate the symptoms of IBS. 

Psychophysiologist and gut-directed hypnotherapist, Dr Simone Peters told Sofie Formica on 4BC Afternoons, "Looking at the evidence and looking at the efficacy of this therapy, we realised actually that hypnotherapy works just as well as dietary-based intervention."

"So out of the IBS patient population, we know that about 80% of people respond to this as a treatment, and of those people who respond, we see about a 70, 75% reduction in their symptoms," Dr Peters continued. 

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