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MBN 23 Feb 11
Midcounties Co-operative is to offer a green funeral service to its customers designed to help minimise the environmental impact of their funeral.
The Midcounties Co-operative Funeralcare will be partnering with Tyne & Wear-based company JC Atkinson to offer the new service called Greener Goodbyes…
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Express & Star 15 Nov 10
Bereaved families in Walsall will have to pay more for burials and cremations, while register office charges for marriages and baby-naming ceremonies will also rise.
Walsall Council predicts the additional charges will bring in an extra £90,000 next year. All service costs are set to rise with some increasing by just a few pounds while others will increase by up to £199…
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BusinessDesk 14 Sep 10
Bids are being invited to run a café at the new crematorium at Sandwell Valley.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council says it would like the new purpose-built eatery to be open early next year, by which time the £3.25m Smatorium building will have been in operation for several months.
Business plans must be submitted by October 31, with face-to-face pitches taking place throughout November and the winning bidder announced in December…
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Express & Star 13 Mar 10
Mourners will soon have to pay more to bury their loved ones in the Black Country and Staffordshire under plans to increase costs by up to six per cent. Councils in Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall, Sandwell, Cannock are proposing higher fees from April. In Walsall, a 2.5 per cent rise has already been agreed…
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The YamYam 21 Nov 09
Bosses at Walsall Council have agreed a modest increase in charges for burials, cremations and weddings that take place in the borough.
Internment fees for adults over 16 will rise from £806 to £826. The cost for under 16’s remains unchanged at £114. The fee for the right to erect a headstone not exceeding 3` will go up from £240 to £246. Use of the chapel and organ per half hour will go up by £4 to £177. The fee for internment in the Babies Memorial Garden remains unchanged at £114 as long as the coffin does not exceed 3`8” by 1`8”.
The cost of a marriage licence will increase from £1,129 to £1,157 and the fee for child naming at a registry office will rise by £2 to £87.
Hard up Walsall Council are hoping the increases in fees for births, deaths and marriages will generate an income of £55,000 which will be set against an annual loss of £175,000 in bereavement services. The loss is blamed on the decrease in the numbers of deaths.
The decision taken by Walsall Council’s ruling cabinet , struggling to find over £11 million in cuts and increased council tax, was approved on Wednesday night.