Real life 'Eleanor Rigby'

Olive Archer, from Swindon, is due to be buried on January 14 after dying at the age of 83. The minister who will conduct the funeral ceremony, the Rev Akasha Lonsdale, put out an appeal for mourners as only a funeral director and herself were expected to attend the funeral.



Miss Archer had spent five years in a care home in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during which time she did not have a single visitor.



But after the appeal more than a dozen people have offered to pay their last respects.