A poet who last year launched a project to provide eulogy poems for people who have no one present at their funeral has attended and provided a poem at the first such service in Scotland.

Andy Jackson said on Facebook: “I attended my first 'Lonely Funeral' this morning - the first in Scotland and possibly the first outside the Netherlands/Belgium under the Lonely Funeral banner.

“I had a weekend's notice from Dundee council (with whom we are working) to write a eulogy poem for a man who had died but for whom there would be no one present at the funeral. At an overcast and deserted cemetery on the outskirts of Dundee we laid him to rest, with only the poem to mark his life - I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

“It was a privilege to speak for him in the absence of anyone else - whatever might be said about the rushed and ragged poem that was written, I believe it was an honest and well-meaning use of words in the service of a humane enterprise.”

You can find out more about the Lonely Funeral project here