This ranged from visiting people in hospital to opening fetes, all voluntarily in his own time.

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Where there might actually be a real job to do and rather less of the tea parties and opening garden fetes.

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At the moment hyper-local sites tend to be filled with discussions of town fetes and the next music night at the village pub.

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The leaders of 17 nations sat at an arc-shaped table in the opulent Salle des Fetes of France's Elysee Palace, the same room used to sign the Bosnia peace accords, for the signing of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security.

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