| A green idea for funeral site |
| Monday, 13 March 2006 | |
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Mar 11 2006 SCOTLAND may model a new multi-million-pound cemetery on a "green" burial site in Wales. Following a visit to Green Lane Burial Field in Powys, Inverclyde Council said it was considering the possibilities. Bodies are buried in shrouds or wooden or cardboard coffins, and bulbs or live flowers mark graves, not headstones. Green Lane owners Ifor and Eira Humphreys, of Upper Bryntalch Farm in the village of Abermule have had 16 funerals, while 59 people, aged between 19 and 93, have made advance bookings. A spokesman for Inverclyde Council said, "We were impressed at what we saw at Green Lane and the visit certainly sparked our imagination." http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/tm_objectid=16800276&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=a-green-idea-for-funeral-site-name_page.html |