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‘Food is a powerful way to show and share love’

Three top chefs share their recipes for remembrance on Celebration Day, an initiative to toast the people who have shaped our lives.

We’ll never stop grieving for our children. Instead we celebrate their lives

Heartfelt stories were shared at the Hay Festival to mark Celebration Day, a new national event that encourages people to pause and remember loved ones.

Thousands of Times readers to plant trees in memory of loved ones

Celebration Day will create a woodland at Dunham Massey to serve as a living memorial.

Brits struggle with death – but is a national day of remembrance really the answer?

The British talk less about our dead than almost any other culture on earth.

The Times’s new campaign: Planting the Future

Trees are not only pollution killers, they can connect generations.

Strictly's Arlene Phillips says she woke up in 'shock' after grim reality on birthday

Strictly Come Dancing's Arlene Phillips sat down on Loose Women to share how she spent her 80th birthday - but she revealed it started with a heavy realisation.

Dame Arlene Phillips concerned she’s ‘close to not being here’ after celebrating 80th birthday

Dame Arlene Phillips has considered for the first time that she is approaching the end of her life as she turns 80.

New dedicated woodland close to Dunham Massey for people to remember and celebrate their loved ones

Seven in ten Brits enjoy hearing stories about loved ones who have died, study finds

The top ways to honour someone's memory include looking through photos, sharing stories about them, and lighting a candle.

Talk about death on Celebration Day, Britons urged

Top ways to celebrate a loved one after death - including sharing stories about them

Looking through photographs, and raising a toast to a lost loved one, are other popular ways to honour their memory.

The quirky ways Brits remember loved ones who have died – including getting a tattoo and retelling their best jokes