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Article: Lord Mayor and lady mayoress ; Last year the Queen attended 417 official functions in Britain and abroad - but her busy diary barely puts her in the same league as Plymouth's Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.
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- Plymouth Evening Herald, The
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- May 12, 2009
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Last year the Queen attended 417 official functions in Britain
and abroad - but her busy diary barely puts her in the same league
as Plymouth's Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress.
In the year since May 2008 Brian Vincent and his partner Pauline
Murphy have attended more than 600 official functions in Britain and
abroad.
Despite a punishing schedule of events ranging from an hour
upwards, they also held down full-time jobs.
Brian, 59, the Labour councillor for Efford and Lipson, leaves
home at 5.30am for a 6am start in the Plymouth Citybus office - if
he isn't already up and about on civic business.
"On Friday May 1 we were up on the Hoe at 5.30am for the Plymouth
Morris Dancers," he says.
Pauline ...