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"I can nip in here and get what I need. Prices are so expensive nowadays and I've found it really handy to grab what I need here."

Is it any wonder that City Council meetings nowadays easily dissolve into even more municipal desmadre?

"We have to remember that the Roman Empire, and indeed the Middle Ages, didn't think of race as we think of it nowadays. It had nothing to do with skin colour," he told the BBC.

“Young people I think nowadays are busy with work, and they don’t care about this traditional holiday,” she said.

"It's just too much money to give away nowadays, it's not fair," he said.