How have things changed where you live compared to years ago?

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Ice cream van tunes, where once us kids would delight at the sounds of chitty chitty bang bang alerting us to the wonders of the humble choc-ice, they now play some dreadful re-hashed version of a Rhianna song…..not good.

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