Mrs Holland said she was aware of a number of residents that had moved from Gladstone Road because the noise levels were so unbearable.

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So the combination of the two is almost unbearable.

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They worry, and rightly so, that America faces budgetary meltdown, as its ageing population places unbearable strains on pensions and health-care systems.

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