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TRAFFIC congestion and loss of ancient forest were among the concerns at a public consultation about plans for a new crematorium. Proposals for the multi-million pound crematorium went on display yesterday at Havant and Waterlooville Football Club. As reported in The News, The Southern Co-operative wants to build a state-of-the-art facility off Bartons Road, Havant.

WORK to connect the new Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre and state-of-the-art energy saving equipment at Redditch Crematorium is due to begin next week. The pipe work installation, which will send the heat generated from a flue gas cleaning process to the new centre, will take around two to five weeks to complete.

WEYMOUTH Crematorium has had a £1.4m revamp. People are now being invited into the building in Quibo Lane to see the improvements for themselves. An open day is taking place this weekend when there will be a rededication service by the Archdeacon of Sherborne, The Venerable Paul Taylor, and Humanist minister Leslie Scrase. The building work at the crematorium was carried out by local firm Matrix on behalf of Weymouth and Portland Borough Council.

CALLOUS thieves took around 40 memorial plaques from a crematorium last weekend. The brass plaques are likely to have been stolen to be sold as scrap metal. It is thought the thefts took place between 7pm on Friday September 9 and 8am on Monday September 12 at Surrey and Sussex Crematorium, on Balcombe Road.

Thieves have stolen about 40 brass memorial plaques from the Surrey and Sussex Crematorium. Sussex Police said the plaques stolen from the crematorium in Balcombe Road, Crawley, had probably been sold to scrap metal dealers. Insp Zahid Khan said: "Having a plaque stolen from a loved one's grave is clearly a distressing thing to happen." He appealed for any scrap metal dealers who may have been offered the plaques to come forward with information.

AM I the only person who cannot understand what all the fuss is about regarding the proposed crematorium and burial ground at the rear of St Andrew's rugby club in Ashlawn Road? I have read several letters of objection in your publication over the last few weeks and so far not one of them, in my opinion, has come up with a good reason why this development should not be allowed to proceed.

CALLS have been made for a crematorium to be built in Flintshire to save residents hundreds of pounds and reduce stress. Currently anyone in the county wishing to cremate a loved one has to travel across the border to Chester Crematorium in Blacon– and pay £164 more than a Cheshire West and Chester constituency resident. The only other alternatives are to travel to Pentrebychan in Wrexham or Colwyn Bay. He told the Chronicle Flintshire residents should have the right to be put to rest in the place where they were born and raised.

THE council has apologised to a grieving widow and her daughter for the distress caused by the felling of a tree around which her late husband's ashes are scattered. Mandy Macfarlane went to lay flowers at the tree in the gardens of Grimsby Crematorium on the third anniversary of her husband Andy's death. But when she got there she was distraught to find an empty space where the tree once stood.

Campaigners opposed to a new cemetery and crematorium in Warwickshire have started a petition against the plans. Opponents of the proposed cemetery south of Ashlawn Road in Rugby say it would spoil the view. There are also concerns over traffic issues. Rugby Borough Council has submitted a joint application with nearby Daventry District Council in Northamptonshire. The borough council said it needed the site as it was running out of burial space.

Hundreds of highways, planning and crematorium workers in London will stage strike action on Tuesday in the latest outbreak of industrial action by council staff over cuts. Around 400 members of Unison at Barnet Council in London will take action after warning that 70% of employees could lose their jobs over the next 16 months. The union said the council has already sold off a number of services, and has now put several contracts, with a total value of £2 billion, out for consultation with the private sector. Linda Perks, Unison's London regional secretary, said: "Barnet Council continues to push through reckless plans that gamble with the future of hundreds of staff and the vital services they provide.