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Lockdown

The UK’s lockdown periods during the Covid-19 pandemic brought significant disruption to funeral operations, with restrictions on attendance, service formats, travel, and aftercare. These measures affected how families commemorated loved ones and how funeral directors, crematoria, and cemeteries adapted their services under pressure. Funeral Service Times reports on the operational, emotional, and regulatory impact of lockdowns across the funeral sector, offering insight into how professionals responded, what lessons were learned, and how the experience continues to shape service delivery and contingency planning.

Lockdown

The UK’s lockdown periods during the Covid-19 pandemic brought significant disruption to funeral operations, with restrictions on attendance, service formats, travel, and aftercare. These measures affected how families commemorated loved ones and how funeral directors, crematoria, and cemeteries adapted their services under pressure. Funeral Service Times reports on the operational, emotional, and regulatory impact of lockdowns across the funeral sector, offering insight into how professionals responded, what lessons were learned, and how the experience continues to shape service delivery and contingency planning.

Tech playing big part in funerals amid Covid-19 pandmic, says Full Circle Funerals

Funerals have been severely disrupted during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is still possible…

Dignity reports 11% decrease in Q1 profits amid uptake in low-cost funerals

Funeral group Dignity has reported an 11% decrease in operating profits to £19.4m in its Q1…

Birmingham City Council reviews new opening times for cemeteries and crematoria

Birmingham City Council has reviewed its opening times for visitors across all burial sites…

Are we beginning to re-open anyway?

The PM says he will soon announce the reopening plan after weeks of compulsory lockdown for…

Coronavirus treatment hopes push stock markets up, and ‘Spoons to reopen in June

Investors are chirpy this morning amid hopes of a new coronavirus treatment that has been…

The aviation industry is now in very serious trouble

In a sign of just how distressed the aviation industry is, British Airways has announced…

Job support to be wound down, M&S dividend suspended, ventilator production slows, property market halts

Chancellor Rishi Sunack says he will wean the economy off his support schemes in a “gradual”…

Lockdown to persist says Johnson, clergy weigh in on behaviour of corona-corporations

The PM is back at his desk and says the lockdown must continue for the foreseeable future,…

Scarves for face-masks will be part of the government’s post-pandemic advice

The government will advise the use of homemade facemasks once the pandemic measures are…

Will there be coronavirus help for small company directors who are paid by dividend?

The financial plight of limited company directors has been raised by the Tory chairman of…
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