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English Pub: Drinks Water and Paulette Greig

english pub: Traffic along the busy road is just as varied -- hipsters on vintage race bikes zoom past a mother in full-face veil pushing a stroller, according to CTV. A block away, Paulette Greig, the daughter of a Jamaican Indian and a white English woman, drinks water in the Albert Inn, a traditional English pub. A hungry diner can now choose Halal snacks from Beirut, kebabs from Afghanistan or garishly colored sweets from India, among many others. The kaleidoscope of Mancunians -- as the city's residents are known -- reflects the proudly multiethnic city's long history of welcoming migrants and, on the whole, successfully integrating them. Manchester's race relations have been in the spotlight since suicide bomber Salman Abedi, a British citizen of Libyan descent, killed 22 people and injured dozens more on Monday night outside an Ariana Grande concert. Obviously, you get the odd idiot, but you get them everywhere, Greig said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.