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Ashes of 250,000 cremated relatives left uncollected at funeral homes

Talk about gathering dust... the ashes of around 250,000 people are sitting abandoned at funeral homes across the country.

Some of the cremated remains have been left for as long as 60 years and now many parlours are desperately trying to return the urns to relatives.

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