Should funerals be sombre occasions?

Sky News presenter asks mourners at wife’s funeral to wear black saying he’s ‘ill at ease’ with modern conventions

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Sky News anchor Colin Brazier has asked those attending his wife’s funeral not to wear bright colours, requesting that mourners “leave their Hawaiian shirts and pink helium balloons at home” and attend in black.

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