In a crisis it is difficult to go your own way. People fall back to what they are familiar with, which is often church. Choosing a celebrant for a funeral service is still rare. I want people to ...

EVERY WEEK Alison Vallance goes to the funerals of people she has never met. She is a “civil celebrant”, paid by families to lead burial or cremation ceremonies in place of a vicar. Sometimes she ...

Ok, so this might sound a bit morbid, but it is a matter of life and death. Deaths do happen every day, whether we expect ...