If it seems too good to be true…. the sad end of the promise of Ecolation
Over time, we have received a number of well informed comments on a post written back in February 2017 on Ecolation, the supposedly innovative alternative to cremation. It became apparent that we, along with many others, had been taken in by a sales pitch for something that wasn’t at all what it seemed. The slick […]
There’s an unpleasant odour emanating from somewhere..
Back in 2015, we reported on this blog about the legal skirmish between funeral plan providers Safe Hands Funeral Plans and Golden Charter – see here to refresh your memory. A paragraph from that blog post came to mind today: ‘While the lawyers order trebles all round and get ready to enwrap both parties in […]
Funeral poverty anyone?
‘High level return on investment within 2 to 5 years’ 2,500 plots available to investors Plot price to investors £2,400 High level return within two to five years Plots are valued at over £3,750 Clearly defined exit strategy Minimum investment is 4 plots ‘A very rare opportunity has arisen to purchase burial plots in London’s […]
Shark eats shark as LM Funerals are gobbled up for £37.5 million
Posted by Charles Marvellous news from last Wednesday’s Telegraph: The Duke Street consortium, which includes Babson Capital Europe and Metric Capital Partners, has acquired LM Funerals from Sovereign Capital, a buy-out firm focused on investing in small companies. LM Funerals is the third largest funeral company in Britain, with more than 60 branches – mainly in […]
Downer of the day
According to Co-operative Funeralcare, which takes care of a quarter of all UK funerals, sales of its Gold where to buy cialis online yahoo plan rose by 34% last year, while those of personalised, tailor made plans rose by 16%. More here
Hurrah for Dignity!
Announcement by the Press Association: The UK’s largest provider of funeral-related services has reported higher profits after its strongest year for the number of families planning ahead for a death. Dignity, which has 600 funeral locations including 35 crematoria, said the number of pre-arranged funeral plans on its books and yet to take place increased […]
Die to let
In Dorset a woman has been billed for £3,000 because her father negligently failed to give his care home 28 days’ notice of his own death. Full story in the Daily Mail here.
No opportunity wasted
Posted by Vale Someone dies and another sees an opportunity: death is an opening in more ways than one. Now, it seems, the cyber criminals have got in on the act. When Whitney Houston was discovered in her bath at the weekend all the nodes and synapses of the internet flickered into life and, as […]
Fill in the blank
Friday is competition day here at the GFG, and we’re giving a cigar to the first person correctly to fill in the blank. The story is recent, and comes from a regional newspaper.We”ll give you the rest of the story as soon as we have a winner. A GRIEVING family struggling to raise burial fees […]
