Digger-driver's coffin carried to funeral in JCB after he requests special treatment for final trip

A former JCB driver has been carried to his funeral in a digger after requesting it as the transport to take him there.

Paul Nowicki had been a building labourer for thirty years, operating diggers after arriving in Britain after the Second World War.

He had previously been forced to join the German Army during the war after his family were threatened with the concentration camps.

He was the first person to drive a JCB in Bristol when he worked at the Avonmouth Docks in the late 1950s.

The pensioner died at the age of ninety earlier this month but before he did he suggested a novel way his coffin could be transported for his final journey.

It was placed in the digger's excavator bucket and driven two miles to a crematorium.

His daughters Jeanette Sullivan and Eileen Wagner said he decided he didn't like hearses and wanted to be taken in a JCB instead