“This was a funeral that celebrated unity. Like all other funerals. That bloody box: the awful finality: the dreadful unduckable certainty that life has to come to an end. So of course it was the same today. We knew she was dead, and all of us, no matter how

  Baroness Thatcher’s coffin is borne into St Clement Danes. Pictured on the right, Richard Putt, friend of the GFG, member of the Natural Death Centre and a director of Leverton’s. 

  Sad news for all fans of Winterwillow, the social enterprise of the WinterComfort charity for homeless people which enabled service users to develop basketweaving skills by making wicker coffins. The trustees have discontinued the project. All is not lost. Roger Fowle, lead tutor on the project, has set up