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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 9:20 am 
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*<^!@" government

so they have stripped Lincolnshire of £9M in grants and added £15 Million onto the wages cost through employers NI cost :roll: so we can expect a large rise in council tax bills next year :sad:



https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Busine ... tices.aspx



this is a situation for all councils but is not the prime reason for LCC's large cost increases but I'm sure is an element of it.


School transport is not a council cost, central government send them the money to dish out
Leicestershire County Council are re tendering a lot of SEN jobs at the moment in an effort to "streamline" and reduce costs. As a result I will lose both of my contracts. 1 because the student is being put in a vehicle coming from the other side of leicester and there is no way that I will win that one and the other because although there are only 2 students in the car they want it to be a 6 seater and I don't have one available.


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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
PostPosted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:11 pm 
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Coop funeral plan

Pre-paid by MIL years ago

The plan included £145 for a GP to attend the funeral......(bit late i thing, for a GP)

If we want a vicar to attend the scattering of ashes...............£95

Collecting ashes on a saturday................£65

It cost £2500 20 years ago

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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More and more folks are doing the 'he is dead now, take him away and bring the ashes back when you are done' funerals.

TBH I don't blame them.

One of our punters sadly died recently and she left her body to medical science.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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More and more folks are doing the 'he is dead now, take him away and bring the ashes back when you are done' funerals.

TBH I don't blame them.

One of our punters sadly died recently and she left her body to medical science.


i offfered mine but they took 1 look and blocked my emails

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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A couple of years ago when my dad was dying he wanted to get everything sorted. He didn't have much to leave so I downloaded a will template from the internet. It was filled out leaving everything to me as my sister had already passed away. It was witnessed by my ex wife and her husband. He then wanted to sort out his cremation. He was never a religious person so he just wanted to have a basic cremation. We called the local co-op in and a nice lady came to see us.So he told her what he wanted and she gave the price. It was around £1,200 so he went to pay her and she said he couldn't pay up front because that would make it a funeral plan and the cost would be £1,350 which we thought was a bit strange as he only had a couple of weeks to go. So he said he would pay after he had died. Low and behold he died 2 weeks later so we paid the £1,200 and that was that. He always loved a bargain. :D


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wannabeeahack wrote:
Coop funeral plan

Pre-paid by MIL years ago

The plan included £145 for a GP to attend the funeral......(bit late i thing, for a GP)

If we want a vicar to attend the scattering of ashes...............£95

Collecting ashes on a saturday................£65

It cost £2500 20 years ago



If ashes are not collected within 30 days the Coop charges storage

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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had to wait 3 weeks to get a death certificate cos Muslims who die have to be fast tracked for religious reasons

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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DHL van reversing into you.

Thank f*** for front facing CCTV.

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 Post subject: Re: Gripe of the Day
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So leyton orient play predominantly in red man city in Sky blue and the officials in black is that a colour clash ?

But we had Man city in black and yellow and the officials in sky blue ! :roll:

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