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Sandwell Council's new £3.25 million crematorium is in the running for a top national award. The crematorium, built on the site of the old crematorium in Newton Road, opened a year ago. Adjoining the new chapel is a courtyard cafe together with new staff offices and improved car and coach parking. Builders GF Tomlinson Birmingham Ltd started work on the site in late 2009 and completed work on the chapel itself less than a year later.

Cremators are being refurbished at Wilford Hill (Southern) Cemetery and Crematorium to reduce air pollutant emissions. Guidance published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in 2005 set out a requirement for all of the UK's crematoria to reduce emissions of mercury to the atmosphere by 50 per cent in order to protect the environment. In order to comply with the new guidance the Council has procured Facultatieve Technologies, a world leader in the field of design, construction and maintenance of cremators.

A daughter has spoken of her distress after discovering that she had been mourning at the wrong grave for 17 years. Bungling cemetery staff in Burnley, Lancashire, told Catherine Haywood that her mother Cathy's ashes had been buried 500 yards away from where they actually were. And it was Catherine herself who realised the error had been made, when she wanted to scatter her father's ashes alongside her mother's last month.

A PROPOSAL to build a graveyard and crematorium at the foot of the Dublin Mountains has attracted more than 80 objections. The development, planned for land on the Ballycorus Road at Kilternan, also received 24 supportive submissions, including one from Dublin county sheriff, John Fitzpatrick, who is a local resident. The 10-acre Kilternan Burial Ground and Crematorium Park, being proposed by Hantise Ltd Ashman Properties Ltd, is on land that was formerly part of a lead mine and processing plant.

THE region’s first crematorium will begin operations in mid-November with construction running ahead of schedule. And the operations director of the company behind the development revealed he has been inundated with enquiries from funeral directors and ministers who are keen to see the £2.6million project, next to Wairds Cemetery in the lee of the Eildon Hills, completed. “That response has been most heartening,” said Adrian Britton of Briston-based Westerleigh, the UK’s second largest crematorium operator.

Her father said she had beaten her drug dependency. Amy Winehouse had no illegal drugs in her system when she died, and it is still unclear what killed the singer, her family said Tuesday. The family said in a statement that toxicology tests showed "alcohol was present," but it hasn't yet been determined if it contributed to her death. The 27-year-old soul diva, who had battled drug and alcohol addiction for years, was found dead in her London home on July 23, and an initial post-mortem failed to determine the cause of death.

GRIEVING friends and relatives can now attend the funeral of a loved in at Bramcote Crematorioum from anywhere in the world thanks to an internet broadcast service. The crematorium used by Broxtowe Borough Council is one of the first in the East Midlands to offer the facility and has held five broadcasts so far, allowing people to take part from Thailand and Tasmania so far. Family and friends with access to the internet can go online from anywhere in the world to watch a service in real-time or whenever is convenient up to 10 days after a ceremony has taken place and even participate in the event. The service costs £36.

The Municipality of Thessaloniki has sanctioned the construction of the country’s first crematorium, it announced on Thursday, five years after a law allowing cremation was voted through Parliament. The site selected by municipal authorities is located near Thermi in eastern Thessaloniki, and the total cost, for the study and construction, is estimated at around 3 million euros, which the cash-strapped authority will have to come up with.

According to the newspaper “Aggelioforos”, the first Greek crematorium will open in Thermi of Thessaloniki at the Renaissance of Christ cemetery. Until now, those wanting to cremate their dead relatives had to travel abroad. The majority went to Bulgaria or Germany. The cost is higher than a regular funeral and can reach 4000 euros.

THE VIEWS of Lisburn Councillors are being sought on a planning application for Northern Ireland’s second crematorium in Moira. At Monday’s meeting of Lisburn Council’s Planning Committee, members were told the Strategic Planning division of the Department of Environment had requested the views of the Council about the controversial application, which was classed as ‘major’ last April by the DOE who applied Article 31 to it meaning it could be referred to a public inquiry.