Women only in funeral parlour

LONDON - Britain's first women only undertaker starts business today.

LONDON - Britain's first women only undertaker starts business today.

Ms Barbara Butler believes many women may be happier being treated by their own sex after death - so the new undertaking, at Watchet, Somerset, is staffed entirely by women, including pall bearers.

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