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Shop around for funerals

he cost-of-living crisis may be stretching our budgets, but one thing has got cheaper over the past year: the price of a basic funeral. You’ll now pay an average of £3,953 for a simple sendoff, 2.5% less than in 2021. “It’s surprising to see, at a time when everything else is going up in

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