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Coronation Street actress supports charity event

Thelma Barlow, who played Mavis in the soap opera Coronation Street, helped raise almost £1,000 for charity. The much-loved Dorset-resident, 86,…

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Funeral directors welcome younger daughter to firm

An award-winning, family-run funeral directors has welcomed their younger daughter to the firm. Aubrey Kirkham Funeral Directors was set up by…

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Jewellery stolen at York funeral directors

Jewellery from deceased people has been stolen during a theft at a York funeral directors. Thieves took off with a…

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Dignity buys Co-op crematoriums in £43m deal

The Co-op has sold its remaining crematorium businesses in a £43million deal, according to Thisismoney. Dignity has purchased five different…

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Student suicides reach highest level since 2007

Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that student suicides have reached their highest level in England and…

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Proposed changes to the death certification process in England and Wales

The Department of Health has been seeking views on proposed changes to the death certification process in England and Wales.…

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Cambridgeshire to open its first digital autopsy facility

Cambridgeshire will soon welcome a Digital Autopsy Facility (DAF). It will offer non-invasive post mortems to bereaved families across Cambridgeshire…

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Resting Pets Crematorium celebrates 25 years

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.” – George Eliot Essex based Resting…

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Half of British men do nothing for charity, claims new report

Almost half of men in the UK do not support a good cause or get involved in social action in…

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Paul Allcock announced as new SAIF president

Norfolk based funeral director Paul Allcock of Allcock Family Funeral Services in Norwich has been appointed president of the National…

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