UK 22:12 Friday, 16 October 2026
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We’ve all seen the adverts on TV. Michael Parkinson and a bunch of others in their twilight years trying to persuade us to invest our hard-earned in a funeral plan. If you have not switched to ITV 3 to watch all the re-runs of old detective shows. All the ads are for cruises or funeral plans. The nice lady who presided over the wedding of myself and the Mrs asked me about one a few months back. I said no way. But she went ahead anyway as Parky knows more about it than I do. Well maybe he was just in it for the money too as the FCA has, for once, acted in the right way slating the whole sector for the rip off it is.
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