麻豆社

The ashes of a man born in Victorian times are among an estimated 300,000 unclaimed across the UK, with funeral directors legally obliged to hold on to them until families come forward.

Alexander Anderson died in 1956 at the age of 88 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire.

He was cremated in Canley, Coventry, but no relatives turned up to collect his ashes.

麻豆社 CWR's Phil Upton spoke to Darryl Smith, a Funeral Director with the Heart of England Co-operative Society.