Pandemic

Coping with grief remotely during COVID-19

Coping with grief and the loss of a loved one is incredibly difficult under any circumstances, but during a global…

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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 results due to an…

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Business rates revaluation postponed until 2022

A revaluation of business rates will no longer take place in 2021 in line with the government’s latest efforts to…

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Scottish residents offered financial help with funerals costs

Bereaved Scottish residents could receive help towards the cost of a funeral to help ease the financial pressure during the…

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Mosques set up temporary mortuaries to help strain on services

At least 10 mosques in the UK have set up temporary mortuaries to  help cope with the number of deaths…

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Government launches new Bounce Back loans

Thousands of small firms and sole traders will be eligible for 100% government-backed Bounce Back Loans to help them make…

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South Gloucestershire council prepares measures to maintain funeral services

South Gloucestershire council has announced a series of measures to manage an anticipated peak in demand for burial services caused…

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Are we beginning to re-open anyway?

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

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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 described as promising by the USA’s…

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Over 100,000 extra people grieving in isolation amid Covid-19 pandemic, study suggests

Over 100,000 people are grieving in isolation as a result of the Covid019 pandemic, according to bereavement charity Cruse Bereavement…

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