The council said the cobbles could pose problems for less able-bodied people and those using wheelchairs and prams.

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Sleds replace prams, dog owners ski instead of walk and young people skate across town to visit friends.

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Many young families pushed their children in prams in the procession, Sapa reports.

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On those days we brought the prams inside some of the time the children were sleeping, but most of their sleep they spent outdoors.

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"We observed how shoppers of a range of ethnicities queued patiently and stepped out of the way of prams and elderly shoppers", they noted.

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Some of the firms hawking goods in the Dragon Mart, such as Haier in kitchen goods and Go Baby in prams, have already gone global.

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Parents with prams were among some 100 anti-rape protesters outside court.

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Mr Winwood says there have also been many other issues with the surrounding infrastructure, such as pedestrian walkways which were too narrow for wheelchairs or prams to meet.

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Prams and bike-wheels, and shoes, and then a man's bunnet.

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Where a photojournalist would get closer to the story and seek out the murals, the soldiers, young mothers pushing prams in front of barracks, men in balaclavas, Graham stood back.

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Women push mixed-race children in prams.

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