An undertaker's van carrying a silver casket left the hotel early on Tuesday morning for an undisclosed location.

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Claims that an undertaker's wife was losing her mind in the days before she disappeared were "nonsense", a court has heard.

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But Hadley has an undertaker's patience.

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Philadelphia's Lydia Darragh, America's first female undertaker, operated her business for almost a decade before the Revolutionary War began.

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The operation to take away the granite and steel headstone would be carried out "methodically and professionally", said the undertaker who dealt with Sir Jimmy's funeral last year.

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Johnny Gibellini(ph), the undertaker and personal friend of Pavarotti, said the opera singer's long-time makeup assistant prepared the face as he would have wanted to be remembered.

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