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Eric F Box crosses the world

A funeral director is jetting 5,000 miles to form a unique business link with a colleague in India. (flew out Wednesday 27th June)

Edward Box at Leeds Bradford International Airport at the start of his business trip to India

Edward Box is travelling to Mumbai (Bombay) to establish a repatriation service for Indian people living in Britain.

Edward, manager of the family firm Eric F Box of Dewsbury, will finalise partnership details with Indian funeral director Elroy Noronha after the pair began communicating through the Internet.

Said Edward: "Elroy made contact late last year with the idea of forming a repatriation service for Indian people.

"With the growing Indian community in England it made a lot of sense to start a service shipping bodies back to their spiritual home.