Current Affairs
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Mar- 2019 -28 March
CMA launches funerals market investigation
Following publication of its interim report in November 2018, the CMA consulted on whether to progress to a market investigation.…
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27 March
Coroners could be given power to investigate stillbirths
The government has launched a consultation which could see coroners in England and Wales being given the authority to investigate…
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Feb- 2019 -21 February
The Bereavement Services Portal celebrates its 15th year
The Bereavement Services Portal, the UK-based directory of cemeteries, crematoria and natural burial grounds, is celebrating its 15th year of…
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21 February
Funeral director discusses the end of life in TEDx Talk
Funeral director and founder of ‘modern’ funeral company Poetic Endings, Louise Winter, partnered with end of life doula Anna Lyons…
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14 February
Death certificate price to treble
The price of a death certificate to increase almost threefold over the weekend across England and Wales. The cost of…
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13 February
NAFD confirms support for UK statutory regulation
Members of the National Association of Funeral Directors (NAFD), across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, have given their backing to…
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6 February
Highgate Cemetery’s Karl Marx monument ‘mindlessly vandalised’
The Karl Marx monument, located in London’s Highgate Cemetery has been “mindlessly vandalised” according to a spokesperson at the cemetery.…
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Jan- 2019 -31 January
Co-op expresses concern to prime minister over Children’s Funeral Fund
Leaders at Co-op Funeralcare have written to the prime minister to address the company’s “concern” over what it calls “a…
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31 January
Funerals market study updated
The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its responses from professionals in the funeral trade, as part of its…
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24 January
‘Northern Ireland’s most qualified funeral director’ reprimanded by ASA
A Northern Irish funeral director has been reprimanded by the ASA after calling himself “Northern Ireland’s most qualified funeral director”,…
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