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THE boss of a Coventry funeral directors is campaigning for a better deal for bereaved families. Andrew Pargetter, co-director of A Pargetter and Son in the city centre, has just been made president of the National Association of Funeral Directors – the largest funeral directors’ body in the country. Mr Pargetter hopes to use his year-long term of office to tackle some of the industry’s issues on a local and national level, including the lengthy waits grieving families face to bury or cremate their dead in Coventry.

FEARS that a crematorium could be sited at Plean Country Park led to outcry from the public. And one councillor said it would happen “over my dead body”. Ward councillor Alasdair Macpherson said he had been inundated with calls from locals after the Stirling Observer carried a story about a masterplan for the park which included a potential crematorium within its boundaries.

HEARTLESS thieves stole hundreds of pounds worth of funeral flowers which had been bought in memory of a much-loved great-grandfather. Father-of-five James Hill, 63, affectionately known to his friends and family as “Ronnie”, passed away on June 13 - just 11 days after he was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. But when his devastated family visited St Helens Crematorium last Thursday (June 23) to collect the £600 floral tributes they had lovingly created for his funeral two days earlier - all but a handful had been stolen.

Eastbourne crematorium is in line for a facelift. Town planners have given the green light to extend the building in Hide Hollow to provide a new family room and records store. The extension will also house a new plant room which will control mercury emissions from cremators and the existing four cremator ovens will be replaced with three more energy efficient units.

Plans to spend £2.9m to reduce mercury emissions from crematoria in Leeds should take a step closer to becoming a reality following a key meeting tomorrow. Ten years ago Government passed legislation requiring that at least 50 per cent of mercury emissions from crematoria should be abated before December 31 next year. And eight years ago Leeds City Council was asked, along with other authorities, what its intentions were on installation of abatement equipment.

An application from a family of travellers to make their pitch in Semington permanent has been rejected by Wiltshire councillors. The Ward family has been living on a plot of land next to Semington Crematorium, off the A361, for more than three years after obtaining temporary planning permission in 2008.

FENLAND Crematorium held a public information open day on Saturday. The crematorium, in Knights End Road, March, opened its doors to the public giving visitors an opportunity to have a look around the building and memorial gardens. Staff were on hand to answer questions and to explain the cremation process and how the crematorium - managed by Dignity - operates.

Shares in Dignity, the UK's only listed funeral director and crematoria operator, have had a good run recently and are not far off the record high of 800.56p seen in October However, the shares have been sliding for the past week or so – and now looks a good time to bank profits, particularly as the dividend is relatively uninspiring. The company has a successful business model. It has a strategy of consolidating in the fragmented market of family-owned funeral directors.

A Long Island woman discovered glass shards, metal staples and a partially melted crucifix among other debris in her father’s ashes – and now she’s demanding an explanation from the funeral home and crematorium responsible for managing her dad’s remains. Jennie Spooner, of Amityville, merely wanted to give her father the send-off he deserved. She dusted some of his ashes on a dinosaur in the Museum of Natural History, attached some to the tail of a kite and spilled some on the water at Canaan Lake as her dad wanted, reports The New York Post.

A plan for Oxfordshire’s third crematorium has been unveiled. A new £3.5m crematorium at Garford, near Abingdon, could save mourners journeys to Oxford, Banbury, Thatcham, West Berkshire or Swindon. The planned 296sqm building, on the A338 Wantage Road, would have landscaped gardens of remembrance and land for burials. Memoria, based at Stratton Audley, said the facility would serve a population of 190,000. Business development director Jamieson Hodgson said: “There is definitely a massive demand for the crematorium in the area. We have been looking at the area for two or three years. We are confident it is the right place for a new crematorium.”