For example, within the first week of my internship, my fellow interns and I helped clean a local park, and over the course of the term, our service expanded to serving at food banks, supporting the elderly and tutoring schoolchildren.

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Three local farmers and a mechanic assisted the Cotswold Water Park ranger team to clean up the site and repair the entrance gate within 24 hours.

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Behind him, a clean-cut middle aged man in a black suit stood surveying the scene in the park, taking swigs from a from a bottle of orange soda, frowning.

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Cattle are to be returned to a Birmingham park associated with a string of E. coli cases after they were given a clean bill of health.

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At a huge block of opulent company flats opposite its headquarters, the car-park floors are scrubbed clean every day, and the gardens repeatedly landscaped.

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