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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Paul Britton

The touching 'letters to heaven' post box at a crematorium

A post box has been put up at a crematorium to allow mourners young and old to send 'letters to heaven' for lost loved-ones.

The white-coloured Royal Mail box has been installed at Howe Bridge Crematorium in Atherton, Wigan - the project was the brainchild of a nine-year-old girl missing her grandparents.

Matilda Handy came up with the idea after their deaths - and the concept is now also being rolled out to other crematoriums and cemeteries.

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