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  Funerals firm Dignity starts search for new board roles following coup

  The move follows the ousting of the company’s chairman last week in a vote brought by Dignity’s largest investor, Phoenix.

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  Evening Standard

  Funeral firm Dignity’s chairman ejected in boardroom coup

  The chairman of funeral provider Dignity has been ousted in a coup led by the company’s biggest shareholder. Dignity said 55% of votes cast by shareholders backed a motion to remove Clive Whiley as a director. Shareholders backed the argument for change at the top made by Phoenix Asset Management, which has built up a 29.9% stake in Dignity in recent years.

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  The Telegraph

  Enola Gay: how OMD made poignant pop from the ashes of Hiroshima

  When Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark ’s Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys played their weird new song for their record label, the suits immediately heard the chiming of cash tills. OMD were, by contrast, hugely ambivalent about Enola Gay. Yes it was catchy, that heavenly synth line spiralling toward the troposphere. But it was also a lament for the destruction of Hiroshima by a nuclear bomb in 1945. “The record company instantly thought, 'oh we’ve got a potential hit',” recalls McCluskey. "The

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