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Bringing new meaning to the term "body heat," a UK crematorium is hoping to make some extra cash by selling energy produced during the cremation process. If all goes as planned, the Durham Crematorium will install turbines in two of its burners and sell the excess energy to Great Britain's National Grid, The Telegraph reports. A third burner will continue to warm the site's chapel and offices.

Hundreds of schools are to close across Teesside during strike action by public sector workers on Wednesday. Thousands of NHS workers and council staff will be joining teachers in the walk-out in a row over pensions. Middlesbrough's Transporter Bridge will be closed, as will some libraries and leisure centres. Refuse collection services will also be affected.

A SPECIAL celebration of life service is to be held next month by a dedicated band of volunteers. The Friends of St Helens Cemetery and Crematorium group is arranging for the ceremony on Saturday, December 10, at 11am, in the crematorium chapel off Rainford Road. Townspeople will be able to remember loved ones this Christmas at the dedication service followed by a remembrance ceremony.

HEAT generated by a North- East crematorium could be fed back into the National Grid to provide electricity. Durham Crematorium is investigating the possibility of installing turbines in two of its new furnaces to use the heat generated from cremations to produce electricity, and use the third to heat its chapel and offices. It is thought the turbines would generate sufficient electricity to power 1,500 television sets.

RESIDENTS are starting a campaign against plans to build a new memorial garden and crematorium in Swanwick. Memoria Ltd held a public exhibition of its plans to build a crematorium, chapel and burial areas at land off Derby Road - to the north of Sleetmoor Lane - in the village last month. The firm says a lack of facilities means bereaved folk currently have to travel at least 30 minutes outside the area.

THE Primrose Hospice has launched it appeal for the Tree of Lights Campaign. The Tree of Lights enables relatives and friends to remember a loved one who is no longer with them by dedicating a light to them on a special tree. At the same time, they are asked to make a donation to the hospice, to enable the charity to continue to offer a wide range of clinical and support services to those living with cancer.

A contract to build a new crematorium in Penha, Faro, has been awarded by Faro council to Servilusa, which claims to be the largest and most modern funerary company in the country. The council made the decision to award the project to Servilusa last week on Wednesday. It was made based on the proposal that the company submitted in public tender, which was described as “the most advantageous.”

Plans for a £750,000 makeover of a 50-year-old crematorium in west Essex have been submitted for approval. The upgrade at Parndon Wood Cemetery and Crematorium in Harlow would be its most significant since opening in 1961. Work would include refurbishment of the chapel, including a new entrance hall, a larger car park, and landscaping of its grounds.

A £650,000 filter system is being installed at a crematorium to stop potentially harmful fumes entering the atmosphere. The government has ordered all crematoria to halve the amount of harmful gases given off by cremations before 2013 — but Overdale Crematorium in Overdale Drive, Heaton, is going one better. Bosses at the crematorium have asked Bolton Council for permission to install the new system which stops mercury — from dental fillings for example — and acid going into the atmosphere. Exposure to high levels of mercury can damage the brain, nervous system and harm fertility.

SUPER-sized ovens will be installed at Pleasington Crem-atorium to cope with the growing number of overweight bodies in a £1million project. Town hall officers said the action was being taken after crematorium staff reported an increase in coffins too large and heavy to fit inside the existing burners. The new development will incorporate technology to reduce the amount of deadly mercury pumped out into the atmosphere when teeth fillings are incinerated.