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| Crematorium worker Derek Snow in baby ashes investigation loses job | Crematorium worker Derek Snow in baby ashes investigation loses job |
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| A senior member of staff at an Aberdeen crematorium being investigated over its handling of babies' ashes has lost his job. | A senior member of staff at an Aberdeen crematorium being investigated over its handling of babies' ashes has lost his job. |
| Crematorium superintendent Derek Snow was suspended from his role at the Hazlehead facility last month. | Crematorium superintendent Derek Snow was suspended from his role at the Hazlehead facility last month. |
| Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini is investigating the possible mishandling of ashes at crematoria around Scotland, including Hazlehead. | Former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini is investigating the possible mishandling of ashes at crematoria around Scotland, including Hazlehead. |
| An earlier council investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing. | An earlier council investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing. |
| The city authority is now recruiting a new crematorium manager. | The city authority is now recruiting a new crematorium manager. |
| The crematorium at Hazlehead was among those across the country investigated after it emerged staff at the Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh had been burying babies' ashes in secret for decades. | |
| BBC Scotland revealed last year that no ashes had been offered to the families of infants cremated in Aberdeen over a five-year period. | |
| A group of parents alleging wrongful disposal of ashes launched legal action against Aberdeen City Council at the Court of Session in February. | |
| And the local authority later revealed it changed its processes for the cremation of children from November last year, recovering ashes and returning them to parents in all cases. |