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A TEN-YEAR-OLD’s artwork is to be featured on a Covid-19 memorial stone.

A TEN-YEAR-OLD’s artwork is to be featured on a Covid-19 memorial stone. Westerleigh Group, owner and operator of cemeteries and crematoria, announced last year it would create Covid-19 memories gardens at most of its sites in England, Scotland and Wales. And so they issued an open invitation for people to submit ideas. The winning design would then be etched onto a stone obelisk which will be the centre-piece if each garden. Jake Insall, from Chilton Polden, won the competition with his drawing of clasping hands and a rainbow. He said he felt “proud” to be chosen as the win...

Jake, 10, designs logo to appear on Covid memorials at crematorium Ten-year-old Jake Insall says he is “happy, excited, emotional and a little bit nervous” after learning this week that his artwork will feature on Covid-19 memorial stones at Sedgemoor Crematorium near Burnham-On-Sea and several other South West crematoria. Westerleigh Group, the UK’s largest independent owner and operator of cemeteries and crematoria, announced last year that it planned to create Covid-19 memorial gardens at most of its sites in England, Scotland and Wales, including Sedgemoor Crematorium. Westerleigh ...