On the street, mopeds clatter past and children wave from the backs of pick-up trucks, while in the fields beyond the village, evening shadows fall across the rice paddies and rubber trees.

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Nurses treated patients at the house in the morning, and then took to their mopeds in the afternoons to make house calls.

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And so down into the streets we went: the idea being to make our way towards the Grand Mosque at midday prayer time -- after which the faithful head for Mina from the buses, cars, mini-buses, mopeds and the like that ferried them there.

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Local residents have complained to North Wales Police about motorbikes and mopeds using the lane.

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The streets are mobbed with mopeds, rickshaws and taxis.

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Overall, 152, 416 motorcycles, scooters and mopeds were sold in 1999 - a 27% increase on the 1998 total and the biggest annual figure since 1982.

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