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Deaths, funerals and cremations

Customer notice:

If you need an emergency burials or guidance – our emergency phone will be on between 27 – 29 December 2024 9am - 5pm. Providing we can make the registration and have ground staff to prepare a grave, we should be able to facilitate a burial.

There will be no answer from this phone on 25, 26 December 2024 and 1 January 2025. No burials or registrations will take place on these dates.

The emergency phone number is: 07483379031

From Thursday 2 January 2025, normal service will resume.


From 9 September 2024, the Death Registration process is changing. This involves changes to legislation, and how paperwork is completed and by whom, rather than to the registration itself.

Visit the GOV.UK website for an overview of the death certification reforms