News

Floral tributes becoming more personalised

Cars, handbags, shoes, cats, mobile phones and even social networking site logos are among the favourite choices for personalised funeral floral tributes, according to new research by The Co-operative Funeralcare.

About 35% of UK funerals include personalised floral designs, with hobbies and pets or personal possessions featuring prominently.

Death comes to life at the Southbank Centre

Names and items as diverse as Sandy Toksvig, Jon Snow, Julian Lloyd Webber, The BBC Concert Orchestra, gamelan music, AC:DC and a cocoa bean-shaped coffin will be part of a four-day extravaganza at London’s Southbank Centre for Death: Southbank Centre’s Festival for the Living.

From January 27 to 30, the Southbank Centre will be playing host to free and ticketed talks, music, performances and installations that air different approaches and attitudes to death. There will even be a takeaway poetry kiosk.

Business

Stained glass cabinet creates 
lasting memorial

A designer and restorer specialising in wood and stained glass has come up with a new idea to commemorate a loved one – a hand-made hardwood cabinet decorated by a bespoke illuminated stained glass window.
Paul Sedgwick spent a decade as a designer in the advertising industry but redundancy prompted a change of direction and gave him the opportunity to work with stained glass – a medium that had always interested him.

People

X Factor or South Shields service?

Peter Johnson Funerals in South Shields was missing a soloist from its annual memorial service, as local girl Jade Thirlwall, previously a regular at the service, was committed to TV talent show The X Factor as part of winning girl band Little Mix.


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