55 h. ago Man in court after 35 bodies found during grim funeral directors investigation

Robert Bush has been charged with 64 offences following a "complex and highly-sensitive" investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, East Yorks.

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56 h. ago Funeral director is charged with 64 offences including FRAUD after huge probe left families questioning whether they have the right ashes

Robert Bush, 47 from East Yorkshire, has been charged with 64 offences after officers discovered 35 bodies at the firm's premises in Hull.

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56 h. ago Police charge funeral director, 47, with 64 offences include fraud, theft and preventing 30 lawful burials

Robert Bush, 47 from East Yorkshire, has been charged with 64 offences after officers discovered 35 bodies at the firm's premises in Hull.

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57 h. ago Hull funeral director charged with 'improper burial' after 35 bodies and 'human ashes' found

Officers removed 35 bodies from Legacy Independent Funeral Directors' Hessle Road branch in Hull in March last year

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57 h. ago Man charged with 64 offences after investigation into Hull funeral directors

Robert Bush, 47, has been charged with offences including 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial fraud in relation to human ashes.

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6 d. ago Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped?

Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields

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7 d. ago Frankenstein scientists plotting to grow 'spare' human bodies to harvest organs

US experts argue medical science is being held back by a severe lack of “ethically sourced human bodies” which is costing lives, so other scientists have come up with this solution

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8 d. ago The real Frankenstein's lab: Scientists want to grow 'spare' human BODIES

Scientists want to make a real-life Frankenstein's lab to create 'spare' bodies for use in medical trials and as a source of organs for transplants.

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9 d. ago Director Marco Berger: ‘My films make some masculine viewers question if they could be gay’

The Argentinian film-maker, whose movies blur the lines between gay and straight, discusses what inspired him to make his latest work – queer romcom The Astronaut LoversMarco Berger’s films often begin, in one way or another, with a knock on the door. A young gay man steps into a summer house, or sometimes a luxury villa, typically inhabited by a group of attractive young men on holiday. As homoerotic tension simmers, the hyper-masculine environment is charged with banter, dares, and provocative games. The Argentinian director’s films test the fragile boundaries of homosocial spaces, blurring the lines between gay and straight as characters navigate complex emotions. His settings become pressure cookers – or at times, ticking time bombs – of unspoken dynamics, male bonding, and the perils of repressed desire.It’s these elements – heightened by homoerotic scenes and prolonged shots of the male body – that have made Berger one of the most prolific and successful film-makers in Latin A...

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4 w. ago Service held to mark first anniversary of funeral director scandal

Families of those affected by the investigation into Legacy Independent Funeral Directors have gathered at Hull Minster for a private memorial event.

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last month 7 stand trial over cyber death threats against Paris Olympics artistic director

The trial of seven people charged in connection with alleged cyberbullying targeting the artistic director of last summer’s Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies has started in a Paris court

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