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South Derbyshire residents will benefit from £3 million from the sale of Bretby Crematorium, it has been revealed. Conservatives on South Derbyshire District Council have said they welcome the news that Bretby Crematorium has been sold and are pleased that the facts surrounding the £7.6 million sale can now be made public.

A funeral director forged a grieving mother's signature and then failed to tell the still-born boy's parents he had been cremated until the next day. David Durden, aged 61 of Dunraven Drive, Derriford, was found guilty by magistrates of submitting papers to Bodmin crematorium which did not have the signature of the child's mother or father. The charge comes under the little known Cremation Act of 1902 which was originally introduced to stop doctors financially benefiting from co-signing specific statutory documents.

Money from the sale of Bretby Crematorium will go to rebuilding Uttoxeter Leisure Centre, a council leader hopes. In an email to the Mail, Richard Grosvenor, leader of East Staffordshire Borough Council, also hit out at Labour members who he said have been vocal about the sale in public but failed to give their views privately. Councillor Grosvenor was given delegated powers to decide the sale of the Geary Lane site and it was announced on Wednesday that it has been officially sold to Midland Co-operative for £7.6 million.

Bretby Crematorium has been officially sold for £7.6 million to the Midlands Co-operative Society, the Mail can exclusively reveal. The news comes after months of controversy after council bosses first revealed plans to sell off the Geary Lane site.

Council bosses claim parking wardens gave tickets to mourners at Grimsby Crematorium while trying to target other motorists blocking the entrance to the site. As reported, a number of mourners contacted the Telegraph to express their "disgust" at being handed parking tickets while parked on grass verges outside the Weelsby Avenue crematorium.

consortium submits detailed blueprint for £3m site at Crimond A fresh set of plans have been unveiled in the race to build Aberdeenshire’s first crematorium. An outline proposal for the £3million scheme at Crimond, between Peterhead and Fraserburgh, was backed by councillors in December.

Work to create new offices, a café and courtyard at West Bromwich's £3.25million crematorium is now complete. New staff offices, improved car and coach parking, a covered walkway and somewhere to get a coffee and a snack now complement the new chapel, which opened last summer.

Local communities in northeastern Japan, battered by the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, are divided over whether to cremate the bodies of those killed in the disaster or bury them. In Miyagi Prefecture, local municipalities could not cremate the bodies fast enough, forcing six local governments to move ahead to bury bodies in the ground. In Iwate Prefecture, many local communities withdrew their decision to bury the dead.

A crematorium in Somerset has upgraded its facilities to allow relatives to webcast their loved one's funeral. Services at Taunton Deane Crematorium, which holds around 2,200 funerals a year, have already been viewed online in Australia, Mexico and Israel.

Furious mourners were left stunned when they were handed £70 parking fines at the funeral of a 24-year-old relative. Four cars were parked on the grass verge in front of the car park at Grimsby Crematorium, away from the yellow lines on Weelsby Avenue, but each were still hit with a fine. The recipients are vowing to contest the charges, with one declaring: "I would rather go to prison than pay that."