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Shock as family members receive text messages from mobile phone buried with late grandmother

South Tyneside:  Lesley Emerson's relatives had put the device in her coffin after her death from bowel cancer aged 59 but were shocked when they began to receive messages from it.

Shocked Sheri Emerson received a message from her beloved dead grandma from 'beyond the grave' - after a cruel prankster was given her old number.

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