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Crematorium’s record number Family Announcements
of funerals and record income

‘It seems awful to make a profit’
- council leader IN MEMORIAM DEATH
Ronald Coy
crematorium’s fantastic service provided Betty Neave
A income has topped by our staff and credit to 3rd October 2019 Passed away peacefully at Briar Close Residential Home
£2million in the wake of them.” Two years ago you left us. in Borrowash om Monday 20th September, aged 96
Covid. The crematorium treasurer It’s been a hard time for us all. years.
Zulfiqar Darr told council-
It handled 2,797 funerals lors: “We did better than we We still miss and love you. Funeral service to take place at Bramcote Crematorium
in the year which ended in thought, due to the impact Husband Brian in the Serenity Chapel on Friday 8th October 2021 at
March, a rise of 265. of the pandemic. That is Lesley and Kevin, Tony and 3.30pm.
Bramcote Crematorium reflected in the accounts.” Susan, Paula and Michael, Flowers welcome may be sent care of A W Lymn Family
is owned by Erewash and In his report, he pointed out and all grandchildren and great- Funeral Service, Park House, 1 Park Road, Ilkeston,
Broxtowe borough councils, that there had been an eight grandchildren. Derbyshire DE7 5DA.
who built it next to an old per cent drop in cremations
quarry in 1979. up to 2018 but that this had
The annual report was given now been reversed. Fees and IN MEMORIAM DEATH
to a meeting of Bramcote charges rose to £2,094,450 David John Roberts Kenneth William Beavis
Bereavement Services from £1,784,650.
Committee, which is made It’s a year since you left us and it has been hard without Sadly passed away on Monday 6th September 2021 aged
up of councillors from both CHEAPEST you. 83 years.
authorities. The crematorium charges You are loved and missed by us all. Much loved Dad of Kev and Steve, Father-In-Law of
Erewash council leader £730 for the cremation of Forever in our hearts. Julie and Sue, Brother of Stan and Grandad of Lauren.
Carol Hart said the figures adults who lived in Erewash Loving wife Sandra and all the family and friends. Ken will be sadly missed by his family and friends.
were good, especially at a or Broxtowe, making it the
time when other crematoria lowest in the area except
had opened. for the city of Nottingham. DEATH
She added: “It seems awful The charge is the same for Gerald Cooper
to make a profit. absolutely outsiders - making that the
awful. It goes to show the cheapest around. The family are sad to announce that Mr Gerald Cooper,
a long-standing member of the community, passed away
on Sunday 12th September 2021.
To place a family notice on this page, please call into The funeral will be at St Mary’s Church, Ilkeston on
our office, 1 Bath Street, telephone 07539 808390 Monday 11th October at 10:45am. The Burial will
or email [email protected] be at Park Cemetary at 11:30am ish. The wake to follow
We can include a photo or appropriate image if you will be at 12 noon onwards at The Arena. All are wel-
wish. come to celebrate Gerald’s life.

Romantic notions to more grave areas of concern. sponse cannot be found in simplis- debate once it has reached the req- It all seemed very stage managed
tic arguments or prized opinions
and designed to push the view that
uisite number of signatures.
There are shortages a’ plenty, both
and detailed present and looming, and enor- which battle with each other or But what could be witnessed everyone should get vaccinated,
analysis mous pressures on budgets (both even form a brief and partial alli- instead? You would need to even though the debate was occa-
ance without proper interaction. I
national and individual). Which
sioned by those who were evident-
watch it for yourself (and you
gives rise to the question ‘What was offered a view into how things can at https://www.youtube.com/ ly in one way or another not of
idn’t our athletes and Paralym- can be sustained, and what can help are in this respect on Monday 20th watch?v=q7_2B4d48PU) in order that persuasion. So what was the
Dpians do well in Tokyo? I us through some choppy waters September, when I watched the to make your own mind up but to governing sentiment here, towards
know lottery funding helps but it ahead?’ Within this, elements of the Parliamentary debate on vacci- me it was hugely disappointing in which no real opposition (or hence
only provides the context in which old Brexit debate are revived and nation. This was a Westminster all important respects. therefore scrutiny or challenge)
individuals can train to excel - it’s replayed and inevitably there are Hall debate in what is effectively These Westminster Hall debates was offered?
not like money itself buys the questions about how far Covid has the second chamber of the House were introduced to offer an enlarge- It was hard to escape the view that
achievement. To finish third in the played its part in this too. All these of Commons, where debate takes ment or enhancement of democ- what you had here was a further
medals table behind China and the things in a way require a detailed place more in a committee set- racy, as were the parliamentary example of the persuasive power of
USA in the Olympics and second in analysis and versions of this will be ting and matters are ‘considered’ petitions as a means of offering mo- a patriotism which has moved to-
the Paralympics was a magnificent offered when it comes to pointing, rather than voted upon. So this was tions and their endorsement by the wards a certain end and mobilised
achievement. And yes, I have to or deflecting, the fingers of blame always going to take on a particular public. I don’t know how anyone itself against a common enemy. In
confess, it made me feel proud. It looking for their targets. But what form. It was also the first debate watching this debate could really this case it has gone so far as to put
is perhaps one of many ways in cannot be denied in this is also the in which our own MP, Maggie feel anything other than that this us on a war footing and just like
which we continue to punch above power of the romantic notion and Throup, appeared following her was failing to fulfil that purpose. 100 years plus ego this has created
our weight as a nation. especially that of patriotism. appointment as the new Vaccines As a piece of theatre it was more a small group of ‘conscientious
And whilst in confession mode, Is it wrong to suggest that, whatev- Minister but that is entirely coinci- like a first run through by the objectors’ who are to be grudgingly
I have to say that I felt similarly er detailed analysis may also have dental. The concern is more about actors of a script they have yet indulged whilst equally despised
moved by patriotism during Eng- accompanied it somewhere, the the quality of the debate itself than to fully familiarise themselves and to some extent penalised.
land’s progress at the World Cup Brexit debate, and its outcome, was the local context. with; as an exchange of content, So the situations change but do
Finals in 2018 the even more so fuelled and informed rather more The debate had arisen in response full of animated human exchange, the sentiments which inhabit and
recently at the Euro’s. I’m sorry, by singular notions of patriotism to a number of petitions principally interaction and stimulation towards come to the fore within them? It
I know ‘other sports are available’ and the sort of country, or image to do with the vaccination of chil- reaching new ground and a deeper makes you wonder. And out of the
as they say but it seemed like, up of a country, we wanted to reclaim, dren and moving for a pause on this understanding it was sadly nowhere devastation of The Great War came
to the Final, the entire mood of the than the palpable economic real- or otherwise counselling against it, to be seen. As a meeting between the Spanish flu.
nation changed and was lifted for ities and what was available to a whilst the question of vaccine pass- proposition and opposition it was War always brings a temporary
the better. I felt that personally too. more prosaic analysis? ports and the impact of compulsory a lack lustre 0-0 draw, devoid of suspension of democracy. It feels
It was possible for a brief season Was this a victory of pride over vaccination were also covered in goalmouth incident. Some indi- like are we are in that now. A
to see everything differently and to pragmatism for which we are now passages of the debate. To that vidual flashes of artistry stood out more ‘considered’ reflection is only
feel a mighty force of anticipation paying the price? And having to extent it was comprehensive. But I amongst the general dreariness but available afterwards. First, there
and fulfilment within oneself. see more in terms of proper wages have to say that what chiefly struck even these seemed hardly to relate is a cause to be pursued. But how
We have looked before at how diffi- and who will do the work for the me was how it lacked the quality of to the overall passage of play. One much will this admit of detailed,
cult it then is to come to terms with price paid, or indeed at any price? debate at all! was left with the overall impression and fully representative, analysis?
disappointment but we know for a How does this help us afterwards This is worrying generally but that for all this was meant to be an I think the Westminster Hall debate
while we were inspired and lifted. to reflect aright and make a proper must be all the more so for those example of the new, it was just a gave us our answer.
This doesn’t need closer analysis; it reckoning? And can that also help who have been to the trouble of repetition of the old, dressed up in You can ask for a more detailed set
has a power of its own. us now in terms of a contemporary introducing a petition (and this new clothes. Nothing has really of observations of the debate by e-
These brief summer weeks of suc- response? does involve quite a lot of work) or changed and as a piece of theatre it mailing [email protected].
cess however have now given way Such a reckoning and such a re- signing it in the hope of a proper is of the puppet variety. Richard Shaw