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News and Blogs
- 10 funeral tips (you may need)
- 10th WP branch opens in Lothian
- 135 years of William Purves
- 2021 Lockdown – Impact on Funerals
- 5 things you should ask a funeral director
- A promise that’s worth something
- A Year of Firsts
- Adapting to help grieving families – STV Scotland Tonight Interview
- Announcing a death
- Are DIY funerals the right choice?
- Are you prepared for your digital death?
- Ashes to Ashes
- Being Covid Conscious from 19 July 2021
- Bereavement Support – January 2019
- Call for greener funeral options to be legalised
- Call to revive funeral tradition: coronavirus
- Celebrating World Land Rover Day 2025
- Championing International Women’s Day 2024
- Choosing a career in the funeral sector
- Choosing the right coffin
- CMA – delay in tackling funeral pricing transparency
- Colin Brown: Careers in the Funeral Sector
- Committed to caring to the highest standards
- Coping with grief at Christmas
- Coping with grief during festivities
- Coronavirus Latest (6th April 2020)
- Coronavirus: Latest advice for funerals
- Covid-19 Latest Company advice(28th August 2020)
- Covid-19: The Undertaker two years on
- Cuddle Cot Donated for North East Families
- Defending Funeral Directors – Scotland on Sunday/Evening News
- Distant or Distanced – how we can help mourners
- Doors open day – 29 and 30 September 2018
- Each Life is Unique. So is Every Funeral
- Easing of Restrictions – July 2020
- Embalming Academy – new course dates
- Examining the cost of a funeral
- Financial benefits of funeral planning
- Fitting farewell for car enthusiast father
- Free Wills vs. Free Funeral Plans: Which Should You Choose?
- Fuller Report Calls for Regulation
- Funeral Dress Codes: Lessons from the Funeral of Pope Francis
- Funeral Industry Transformation: Our CEO meets Scottish Business Insider
- FUNERAL of HM QUEEN ELIZABETH II
- Funeral Planning: If I don’t share, how will they know?
- Funerals in the bleak midwinter
- Funerals update – December 2020 to January 2021
- Further easing of restrictions Summer 2021
- Fuss-Free vs. Direct Funerals: Are They the Same?
- Getting it just right (whatever that means for you)
- Give us your wishes. We’ll give you our promise.
- Graduate Success for William Purves
- Grief First Aid for Funeral Directors
- Guiding you around the regulations for Scottish funeral directors
- Helping bereaved families during the pandemic: Tim Purves features in Scotsman
- Heritage skills thrive in 21st century facility
- How planning your funeral helps your tax position
- How to choose a memorial
- How to choose the right coffin
- How to choose the right music for a funeral
- How to speak to someone facing loss
- Hydrolysis Funerals in Scotland: A New Sustainable Option?
- Hydrolysis: The Science Explained
- Inside the Undertakers – come on in
- Is direct cremation, well, just too direct?
- Is direct or unattended cremation for you?
- Land Rover Defender Hearse: the first 50 journeys
- Land Rover Defender: A symbol of remembrance
- Lasting legacy for North East Families
- Lean on our experience
- Leaving a (responsible) lasting legacy
- Limits easing for funerals
- Making it count
- Managing Your Digital Death
- Many Flags. One Standard.
- Memorials – creating a lasting tribute
- Memorials Replace Big Funerals – The Times
- Minister Urges Mourners Not to “Turn Up”
- More financial help to pay for 2020 funerals
- Morningside Cemetery Armistice Centenery Celebration
- New Names. Same team, same promise.
- New Paid Bereavement Leave for Working Parents
- New Scottish burial plots valid only for 25 years
- On Whose Authority?
- Opening in North Berwick
- Our Defender Dream
- Our guide to woodland or natural burials
- Our top tips to choose the right music for a funeral
- Pandemic Prepared
- Plan your funeral now: The financial benefits
- Plan Your Funeral to Help Your Tax Position
- Planning a faith v non faith funeral?
- Planning ahead and bereavement support – Interview with Andrew Purves and Tom Gordon
- Planning ahead and how we can help
- Planning Ahead to Mark 2021 Dying Matters Week
- Popularity of funeral service rooms in 2021
- Prices that are inclusive and transparent
- Purves Repatriation Launches
- Record number of Fife entries for indoor bowls
- Reflections of a funeral director
- Scottish Government launches Funeral Benefit
- Small talk saves lives
- Something a little bit different?
- St Andrews branch now open
- Stricter measures to tackle spread of COVID-19
- Summer solstice 2019
- Supporting families throughout lockdown
- Supporting grieving parents
- Supporting someone grieving in a post-covid world
- Tayside change of name
- The Big Interview – Scotland on Sunday
- The Future of Funeral Care: Would you let AI plan your funeral?
- The Hierarchy of Grief
- The human cost of direct cremation
- The real cost of funerals
- The Times – A Day in the Life of Funeral Directors During CV Pandemic
- The top five questions we answered last month
- Tim Purves features on podcast
- Tim Purves on BBC Radio Scotland with Stephen Jardine
- Tim Purves on Digital Presence in The Edinburgh Evening News
- Tim Purves reflects on Covid-19 – WCC Podcast
- Time to Talk?
- To Absent Friends This Christmas
- To absent friends this holiday
- To View or Not to View – Answering your questions
- Toy Story4 theme to be a funeral favourite
- Travelling Abroad? 5 Repatriation Must Knows
- Upholding high standards in funeral care
- Virtual Funerals
- W. G. Catto: New look – same 101-year-old high standards
- Water Cremation: Andrew Purves in Sunday Times
- Water cremations as a new greener goodbye
- Water funerals: Hydrolysis now legal in Scotland
- What does FCA regulation mean for me?
- What should I wear to a funeral?
- What to do with Mum’s ashes?
- What to say to someone facing a loss?
- What to say to someone recently bereaved
- What Unites Bridget Jones, Babylonians and You?
- When should I call a funeral director?
- Why you can trust us to care
- William Purves earns Cyber Essentials certification – The Southern Reporter
- William Purves Haddington rebrands from Wood & Hay
- William Purves Launches ‘Warm Welcome Appeal’
- Would you let AI plan your funeral?