News about our group of Companies

A sneak preview of our new advertisement for our repatriation service to Larnaca, Cyprus. This will start to appear in relevant news papers across the UK.

We were approached by a Client to have their Father repatriation to Cairo, Egypt on Saturday this weekend. The request was to have the Deceased in Cairo for early Tuesday morning for burial. The Deceased was of Christian Faith. On Monday morning by 8.30 we had effected the removal from a hospital in London and our Embalmer was on hand to prepare for the repatriation. In the meantime our Client had registered the death and we had applied for the Out of England. The Coroner issued this within an hour! A car was sent to the Egyptian Embassy to collect their representative so that he could witness the sealing of the coffin and issue the travel permit. A flight was also booked and confirmed within two hours.

New to us - we have today delivered our first repatriation via our new partners at Birmingham Airport. We have five partner Funeral Directors in and around the Birmingham area, so allowing us to give our Clients a real local service. This repatriation was with Turkish Airways to Iran.

What a weekend! As the MD of Mears Repatriation I don't generally get to perform the actual hard work that my Operatives carry out on a day-to-day basis. But, due to Holidays and location of my staff at the weekend I carried out the Repatriation of a Pakistan National within 36 hours of their death this weekend. The family had managed to register the death within five hours and it was then up to me to get the Coroners permission to remove from the UK.

Thank you again for all the care that was shown to the ****** family. Maggie Mackay Funeral Director/Embalmer Delta Funeral Home

Pilots at Lufthansa Airlines are due to hold a three-day strike from 2200 GMT on 1 April, their union has announced. The strike, over pay and working conditions, is likely to cause the cancellation of hundreds of flights. It will affect Lufthansa passenger services at all airports in Germany, as well as Lufthansa Cargo worldwide.

Our new branch in the tranquil setting of Warrington Cemetery Lodge is now open. We cannot believe that we got our hands on this fantastic property. Chris and his team have worked very hard over the last few months to achieve this finish and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them.

Over the past few weeks we have realised that some of our clients have not been given the opportunity to consider fully the choice of the coffin. So we have just launched our new PDF style brochure that will be emailed to every client with their standard quotation. As this is a PDF brochure we intend to listen to our clients feed back and we may change the coffins offered.

So today we completed a repatriation to Port Harcourt in Nigeria which in its self is not news. But we then arranged to have the Deceased transported to Onitsha by road, which as can be seen above is about 200km away, for our clients.

So, clearing out some old files this week and found this lovely old photo. I think that this is a photo of my Grandad bearing at a funeral in the 1930's. As a third generation Funeral Director it's great to have this record. It's recognised throughout the trade that both my Grandads were well known Funeral Directors. One in Westminster and one in and around the Clapham area in South West London.