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These pieces of metalwork may look like they were used to keep a barn door in place, but they had much more personal application for those who once wore them. They are orthopaedic implants, like the thousands surgeons insert into patients every year to hold battered, broken and failing bodies together. The reason these have a less than pristine look about them is because, like their former owners, they have just been through a furnace. They were recovered, by hand, from the ashes of the cremated.

A grieving daughter was left devastated after funeral bosses refused to cremate her mum because she was too fat Clare Thornhill, 33, of Harlow, Essex, was shocked after being told her 19-stone mother was too big to fit in the council-run cremators. Yorkshire-born Jackie Marsh, 56, suffered heart complications and told her devastated family that her last wish was for her funeral to be held in her adopted home town of Harlow.

Plans for a new crematorium near Lichfield have been given the go-ahead. The application for land near Fradley Lane was approved by Lichfield District Council’s planing committee. The approval will mean cremations could take place at the site between 10am and 5.30am on weekdays and 10am to 2pm on Saturdays once it is built.

Ron and Irene Sullivan moved to Greendale for the peace and quiet. Twenty-four years ago the Sullivans bought the heritage-listed St Mark’s Church on Greendale Rd. The rural setting was the perfect place for Mr Sullivan to indulge his love of organ music. “I spent four years building a large pipe organ,” he said. “I needed a music dwelling and the tranquillity of the church and the Greendale area was perfect.” But Mr Sullivan fears this tranquillity is about to be shattered with the approval of a crematorium on his neighbouring property. It will surround his property on three sides.

Building work is to start later this month converting a former Borders church into a crematorium, it has been confirmed. Scottish Borders Council gave the green light to the plans at Houndwood Church in Berwickshire almost 18 months ago. The original applicant West Park has since been bought out by another Edinburgh-firm, the Carlton Group.

Roselawn Crematorium is set to take on extra staff to deal with the rising demand for cremations in Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council has confirmed. Even with cremations taking place after just 18% of all deaths in the region - compared with 74% in the rest of the UK - the facility is currently operating at full capacity. Some families have been forced to wait up to eight days for a service, adding to their distress at a difficult time.

Belfast City Council has agreed to hire extra staff at Roselawn Crematorium in the city to allow more cremations to take place. The current waiting time for such funerals is about eight days. The findings of a review into the situation were presented to the city council on Tuesday night.

Uttoxeter is set to benefit from a huge cash injection towards a new leisure centre following the sale of Bretby Crematorium. East Staffordshire Borough Council and South Derbyshire District Council confirmed the crematorium will be sold to the Midlands Co-operative Society meaning the money is now available for a new Uttoxeter Leisure Centre East Staffordshire is set to receive £4.6 million of the money from the sale.

Shrewsbury’s crematorium is set to be sold off to a private firm in a multi-million pound deal after town council officials dropped out of the bidding to buy it. Sources had claimed the cost of cremations could double if the site at Emstrey fell out of public hands. It led to Shrewsbury Town Council launching a bid to buy it from Shropshire Council.

The energy from cremation can be harnessed for use in public buildings or houses. But what are the moral questions? Recycling the excess heat from cremation might not sound like the most obvious way to honour your loved ones, but for the environmentally aware, it could be a more efficient way to create energy. Dr John Troyer, deputy director of Bath University's Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), is currently grappling with some of the moral issues – such as whether the process is respectful to the dead – surrounding the process, which is known as heat capture.