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      <title>Reflective wildflower area for Cheltenham’s crematorium </title>
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      <description>Next summer, Cheltenham Crematorium will benefit from a butterfly and wildflower area for families and visitors to spend time in and reflect.</description>
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      <title>Cheltenham’s cemetery and crematorium service shortlisted for top public sector award</title>
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      <description>Cheltenham’s new cemetery and crematorium service has been nationally recognised as a finalist in ‘best service team of the year’ for the APSE (Association of Public Service Excellence) awards. </description>
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      <title>Butterflies, bereavement and memories</title>
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      <description>Council’s contractor, Willmott Dixon, provides handcrafted bereavement memory boxes and begins planting for the butterfly garden at new chapel and crematorium site. </description>
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      <title>‘Topping out’ ceremony marks important milestone at Cheltenham’s new crematorium </title>
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      <description>A special event to mark the significant progress with the construction of Cheltenham’s new crematorium took place this week.  </description>
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      <title>Cheltenham’s new crematorium reaches key milestone</title>
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      <description>The new crematorium at Bouncer’s Lane Cemetery is starting to take shape, with the steel frame construction for the buildings scheduled to begin on 26 March. </description>
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      <title>Two chapel plan to go ahead</title>
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      <description>Plans for a second new chapel as part of the project to build a new crematorium at the cemetery on Bouncers Lane were approved by cabinet this week. </description>
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      <title>Refurbished headstone unveiled for founder member of the Royal College of Nursing</title>
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      <description>Tomorrow (Friday 16 December) Cllr Chris Ryder, mayor, will unveil the refurbished headstone of founder member and first president of the Royal College of Nursing, Dame Sidney Brown.</description>
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