Latin graffiti has been daubed across several luxury houses in Cambridge amid suggestions locals are unhappy with the development.

The words "Loci Populum!" and "Locus in Domos" were painted in large letters across the front and sides of the houses in Water Street, in Chesterton, which cost more than £1.2million each.

The Latin phrases translate online as "local people" and "place of homes". Mary Beard, a Cambridge University professor of classics, told the BBC: "This is a bit hard to translate, but I think what they're trying to say is that a lovely place has been turned into houses."