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The Great Pompey Cake-Off Competition launches in aid of charity

The Co-operative Funeralcare, North End is sponsoring a new baking competition in Portsmouth in aid of Wessex Cancer Trust. The…

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CHARITY SPOTLIGHT: The Psychiatry Research Trust

Mental illness and brain disorder affects everyone – one in four of us directly. They cause profound distress not only…

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Mayor reopens refurbished funeral home

The mayor of Brent has reopened a Kensal Rise funeral home after it had closed for extensive refurbishment. Mayor of…

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Body Worlds: Coming face to face with death

The grandiose buildings that surround Piccadilly Circus have played host to a wide variety of weird and wonderful exhibitions and…

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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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Paupers’ funeral spend nears £5.4m in 2018

New data obtained by insurance company Royal London revealed that local authorities spend almost £5.4m on public health funerals in…

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Birmingham funeral director takes on key international trade association role

A funeral director from the West Midlands has been appointed to a key position at a global trade association which…

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The UK’s first indoor burial facility

In 2019, just 25 minutes away from central London, the UK’s first private indoor burial facility will be opening in…

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Mayor supports re-dedication of historic funeral home

Mayor of Brent, councillor Arshad Mahmood, cut the ribbon as the team from John Nodes Funeral Service in Cricklewood re-dedicated…

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Not-for-profit funeral director wins UK Social Enterprise Award

The country’s only not-for-profit funeral director, Caledonia Cremation, was named ‘One to Watch’ at the UK Social Enterprise Awards in…

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