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Community events and festivities in the United Kingdom tend to be small in scale, centred on the village fête, the summer produce show (when local people mount displays of home-grown fruit, flowers, and vegetables, and compete for prizes), or the town carnival, held in summer with fairground entertainments and a procession of decorated floats.

At county level there are agricultural shows, again during the summer, at which farmers display their prize animals; the national equivalents are the Royal Show, near Coventry, the Royal Highland Show at Newbridge, west of Edinburgh, and the Royal Welsh Show, at Builth Wells in Powys, which attract huge crowds every summer. Sheepdog trials, once a minority interest, gained popularity through being televised and are also now popular.

Churches up and down the land mount flower festivals during the spring and summer, displaying the talents of local flower growers and arrangers, and parish churches are again decorated with fruits and vegetables for the annual harvest festival, which takes place in the autumn.

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