Margaret Thatcher’s four hours of sleep a night would amount to a lie-in for Gary Channon. “I go to bed at 4am,” he says. “And I get up at 7am. So I have more ‘day’ than most people.” Based on a ...

Funeral business Dignity has swung back to a profit after Covid lockdown restrictions meant more attended funerals could take place. A new pricing strategy meant revenues fell in 2021 from £314.1 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poet and playwright Ben Jonson, pleading poverty, opted to be buried upright in Westminster Abbey. His worries ...

The boss of funeral provider Dignity has stepped down and branches may have to be closed, even as the country prepares for potentially tens of thousands of excess deaths from coronavirus. Mike ...

Listed funeral firm Dignity is set to become a private company after striking a deal to sell itself to a group of investors. The £281m cash offer, from a consortium of buyers comprising of SPWOne V ...

You may have thought undertakers would be in clover as a grim silver lining to the coronavirus crisis. But funeral homes giant Dignity today told investors it has actually suffered as church services ...

When my elderly Aunt Fay, my mother's sister, was in her final illness, she had one abiding concern. The savings she had put aside after many years of working modestly as a sales assistant in the ...

On Tuesday, representatives from Dignity Funerals visited The Rowans Hospice to present a cheque for £200, raised during their VE Day fundraising weekend earlier this month. The events were held to ...

An experienced funeral director who was sacked for removing a necklace off a dead woman's body so it would not be cremated with her has won more than £43,000 in compensation. Colin Lockitt, based at ...

Families are opting for simpler, cheaper funeral services amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to UK funeral services group Dignity. Although its first-quarter revenues rose 2%, by April it made ...