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Bodies will be stockpiled for cremation under new rules to cut costs and carbon emissions. Rather than being cremated straight after a funeral, corpses will be stored for days in coffins or body bags in local authority buildings so they can be incinerated in one go. Council bosses claim the decision to use cremators during one period rather than after every service will cut down on energy bills and reduce their carbon footprint. But critics described the scheme as ‘obscene’ and ‘undignified’.

A crematorium has paid £145,000 extra for a super-size incinerator to cope with fat bodies. Staff have had to turn grieving families away because their deceased relatives were too large to fit in the current machines.

South Africa: Grieving Durban families were left stranded at the Mobeni Heights crematorium this week when furnaces ran out of gas. On Tuesday, about 200 family members who had gathered to pay their respects at two separate funerals were told by crematorium officials that the furnaces had no gas and they could not proceed with the cremations.

Belfast City Council has apologised after a sensitive document was used as a sign in a public toilet at one of its cemeteries. A healthcare worker, who did not wish to be identified, handed over the document to the Belfast Telegraph after finding it taped to a wall in a loo at Roselawn Cemetery, where City of Belfast Crematorium is situated. The file was a cremation order for Mr James Renwick, whose funeral service took place in June 2009. Mr Renwick’s wife Hannah said she was appalled at the |blunder. She said: “This is confidential, something that should be locked away in a file in an office. “This shouldn’t be used as some sort of waste paper or poster.”

A WIDOW was left heartbroken when a memorial to her husband was moved without her knowledge. June Bowers lost her husband Frank to cancer in 2004 and shortly afterwards had a vase placed at Bradwell Crematorium in his memory. For more than five years, Mrs Bowers and her family have visited and tended the site, which they assumed was theirs to use. But staff have now removed the vase, as they say it was an unauthorised memorial.

n Western societies, disposing of a dead body has come down to two choices: there's burial, and there's cremation. Occasionally, a corpse is donated to science, but even those remains usually make their way to the crematorium in the end. But since climate change has piqued the world's environmental awareness, it has become clear that death, despite being the most natural of processes, is bad for the environment. Coffins, most of which are made from nonbiodegradable chipboard,

GRIEVING families whose loved ones do not have a burial plot can now have a personalised memorial. Bereaved relatives will be able to buy a variety of plaques displayed in a newly created Memorial Garden in the grounds of the Washingborough- based Lincoln Crematorium. The plaques will only be available on leases of ten or 20 years, meaning they will need to be removed or the lease extended when it runs out.

The family of an obese woman whose body was 'too fat' to be cremated is suing a French crematorium for discrimination. Danielle Pelabarrere, 63, who weighed 22-stone, died of a heart attack in Merignac, near Bordeaux on Saturday.

Mourners may have to hold loved ones’ funerals in Weeley, Braintree or Chelmsford while eco-friendly equipment is installed at Colchester Crematorium. The Mersea Road crematorium is to have two new cremators installed costing £750,000, with work starting on Wednesday and finishing in March.

Details of 146,000 burials and cremations in the Thanet district, dating back more than 150 years, have been scanned onto a computer. The details were held in books showing 86,000 burials dating back to 1856 in St John's cemetery in Margate and the Ramsgate and St Lawrence cemeteries.