Today’s obituaries

Our local paper always used to have the hatched, matched and dispatched on the back page. They changed it to the inside pages as too many people just browsed the back page in the newsagent’s and never went on to buy the paper!

My late mum used to read the obits in our local weekly paper. She said it cheered her up when the deceased had reached a good age - say late 80’s - as it gave her cause for optimism. ‘I’m not that age’