The dolts at The Co-operative Funeralcare have quarried another groundbreaking wheeze. Undistracted by the implosion of Thomas Cook, with which Co-op Travel ill-advisedly merged earlier this year, the blue-skies thinkers at Effcare have cooked up a… wait for it… headstone plan (which they inflatedly call a memorial masonry plan). 

  Muriel Grimmett, Coventry’s first female funeral director, is still going strong at the grand old age of 80. She reckons to keep going for as long as her faculties will allow. She headed up Grimmett and Timms until 1996, when the firm was sold. She now works with the

  Hush little baby, don’t you cry  You know your mama was born to die  All my trials, Lord, soon be over  The river of Jordan is muddy and cold Well it chills the body but not the soul All my trials, Lord, soon be over  I’ve got a little

  Rapper Flavo Flav, clad in his customary clock, attends the star-studded visitation and wake service of Heavy D last Thursday night.  Story.