Current Affairs
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Jul- 2019 -1 July
AOIC responds to £200 cremation fine
The Association of Independent Celebrants (AOIC) has made a statement after two grieving sisters were fined £200 by the Grimsby…
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1 July
Bereaved parents spared children’s burial and cremation costs
Families grieving the loss of a child will no longer have to meet the costs of their burial or cremation,…
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Jun- 2019 -27 June
Former priest avoids jail over funeral fraud
Former priest Andrew Hawthorne has been given a two year suspended sentence for fraud in relation to funeral fees which…
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13 June
Atheist exhumed from Christian graveyard after almost 20 years
A family in Suffolk has been granted permission to have crash victim Gwendolen Patricia Crow exhumed from her grave from…
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6 June
Irish funeral home rents fleet to Trump for $1m
Irish family funeral home, J.P Ward and Sons, has leased four limousines to the US government to rent out four…
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3 June
Alan Greenwood & Sons pays tribute to Surrey funeral director
Independent family funeral directors Alan Greenwood and Sons has paid tribute to Sandra Linda Jeive, its principal and funeral director,…
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3 June
Gov cracks down on ‘shameful’ funeral plan sales tactics
The use of “high pressure and misleading tactics” in the sale of funeral plans will be brought to an end,…
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May- 2019 -30 May
Scottish government publishes funeral cost guidance
New guidance to make it easier to plan the cost of funerals, burials and cremations has been published by the…
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13 May
Funeral director offers to bury Freddie Starr for free
Funeral director Michael Fogg, of Sheffield-based Michael Fogg Family Funeral Directors, has offered to do late comedian Freddie Starr’s service…
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2 May
UKWF and Marsden respond to new Scottish crematorium regulations
The new regulation for crematoriums in Scotland, which came into effect in April, is placing greater emphasis on weighing and…
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