'At one funeral, the coffin was brought in the bucket of a digger' - Well known Mansfield 'celebrant' retires

As a humanist he has led weddings, funerals, vow renewals, baby namings, interments and memorials from Mansfield to Sheffield and Scunthorpe to Peterborough.

Drew Baxter, who is almost 60, and married to Jill for 37, years said: "I have done ceremonies in gardens, woodlands, pubs, working men’s clubs. One of the strangest was inside a tiny hide for the funeral of a bird watcher. At one funeral, the coffin was brought in the bucket of a digger!”